Pollution Check: Site visits - January 2012

January 26: Taxi ranks at London stations. Readings taken beside third taxi where passengers queue. Comparison at Scotch House Corner. Background check in Hyde Park   more »

Pollution Check: Site visits - December 2011

December 21: Outside London Bridge tube (Joiner Street exit) and then inside an office building (anonymous)

December 15: Outside in a South London street then inside an office buidling (anonymous)

December 7: Outside in a Central London street then inside an office building (anonymous)

December 5: Outside High Street Kensington tube station, in shop basement and outside then inside the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea's Town Hall in Hornton Street

December 3: Beside Brompton Road and in nearby residential street

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Pollution Check - Research

Links between urban ambient particulate matter and health - time series analysis of particle metrics. By R Atkinson, Ross Anderson, Gary Fuller, Ben Armstrong and Roy Harrison.

Preliminary conclusions from these analyses suggest that particle numbers (predominantly very fine particles) are the most relevant particle metric in terms of cardiovascular disease

Deaths and admissions from respiratory disease were associated with a range of particle metrics and it is less clear which metric(s) are the most relevant. Further work is underway to investigate this issue

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