1013警惕!室内空气污染更要命 之二.doc

1013警惕！室内空气污染更要命 之二 张铁城 2016、10、13发送 张铁城下载111 No.56参考消息2016/6/6警惕！室内空气污染更要命※美国《新闻周刊》：YOUR OFFICE AIR IS KILLING YOU BY?DOUGLAS MAIN?ON 6/2/16 AT 6:10 AM The Newsweek TECH SCIENCE※参考消息译文：【美国《新闻周刊》6月10日（提前出版）一期文章】题：办公室的空气正在要你的命（作者 道格拉斯·梅因） Many people underestimate the amount of particulate matter they are exposed to indoors, Wigington adds. Without taking these precautions, people unnecessarily expose themselves to more pollution and are even shortening their lives. As?the WHO notes, there’s no absolutely safe level of particulates. You’re not helpless when it comes to dirty air, though. Ryan Allen, an environmental health scientist at Simon Fraser University, has shown that using commercially purchased air filters in your home, even for a few weeks, can significantly improve several measures of health, including levels of inflammation and blood vessel function. In?one 2011 study, his team found that people using a filter have about 30 percent lower levels of?C-reactive protein, which is linked to inflammation, than those who did not. The preliminary results of a nearly completed study in Mongolia suggest that pregnant women with air filters in their houses give birth to larger babies (generally an indicator of good newborn health) than those without, he says. Yet another study in Nova Scotia by the Canadian Home Mortgage Department found that when fans were installed to ventilate and filter air, the number of infectious diseases declined by 75 percent. And?other research?has shown that those who work in well-ventilated buildings have lower levels of anxiety. But not all filters work equally well. David Palmer and Judith Piscione founded a company called Progressive Technologies Inc., which produced a proprietary air-filtering system that removes all particles from the air and is still used in “clean rooms” used to produce many types of electronics, like computer chips and transistors. After selling that company, they decided to startAmerican Innovative Research Cor