Dayan Yelena Guerra, Laura Margarita Valencia-Osorio, Andrés Felipe Zapata-González, Mónica Lucía Álvarez-Láinez, Elizabeth Cadavid Torres, Erick Alejandro Meneses Ramirez, Viviana Torres Osorio, Juan Sebastián Botero Valencia, Andrés Pareja López
Particulate matter (PM) has been associated with adverse effects on human health, causing allergies, skin and eye irritation and corrosion, respiratory tract irritation, headaches, bronchoconstriction, cardiopulmonary diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, reproductive problems, premature deaths, and epigenetic changes that lead to a wide variety of cancers, among other health conditions. The air quality in the Medellín - Colombia presents fluctuations that oscillate between the maximum permissible levels established at the national level and by the WHO, which represents a latent risk to people's health...
November 27, 2023: Toxicology