The impact of respirable dust exposure on lung function parameters of motorcycle taxi drivers in Bangkok and adjacent provinces, Thailand

IF 2.9 4区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Air Quality Atmosphere and Health Pub Date : 2024-06-29 DOI:10.1007/s11869-024-01599-y

Kamonwan Samana, Kimihito Ito, Orasa Suthienkul, Arroon Ketsakorn

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The motorcycle taxi drivers of Bangkok and adjacent provinces in Thailand may have been heavily exposed to ambient air pollution and the impact of this on their lungs has been neither documented nor studied. In this study, we recruited a total of 343 motorcycle taxi drivers in Bangkok and adjacent provinces in Thailand and their lung function parameters were analyzed using spirometry in May and June 2022. Of these, 153 participants were selected and their exposure to respirable dust during working was measured by personal air sampling. Respirable dust concentrations collected with personal air sampling suggested that motorcycle taxi drivers working at workstations where they were exposed to respirable dust at high concentrations tended to have a low percent predicted FEV₁. Twelve% and 7.3% of motorcycle taxi drivers recruited in this study had the symptoms of chronic bronchitis and acute bronchitis, respectively. These results suggested that some motorcycle taxi drivers around Bangkok and adjacent provinces had a high risk of occupational exposure to ambient air pollution. The government needs to establish a medical check-up system for motorcycle taxi drivers to monitor their health status.

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可吸入粉尘暴露对泰国曼谷及邻近省份摩的司机肺功能参数的影响

泰国曼谷及邻近省份的摩托车出租车司机可能大量暴露于环境空气污染中，而这种污染对他们肺部的影响尚未被记录或研究。在这项研究中，我们在泰国曼谷和邻近省份共招募了 343 名摩托车出租车司机，并于 2022 年 5 月和 6 月使用肺活量测定法对他们的肺功能参数进行了分析。其中，我们选取了 153 名参与者，通过个人空气采样测量了他们在工作期间暴露于可吸入粉尘的情况。通过个人空气采样收集的可吸入粉尘浓度表明，在暴露于高浓度可吸入粉尘的工作场所工作的摩托车出租车司机的预测 FEV1 百分比往往较低。在这项研究中，分别有 12% 和 7.3% 的摩的司机有慢性支气管炎和急性支气管炎的症状。这些结果表明，曼谷及邻近省份的一些摩托车出租车司机职业暴露于环境空气污染的风险很高。政府需要为摩托车出租车司机建立体检制度，以监测他们的健康状况。

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Air Quality Atmosphere and Health ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-

CiteScore

8.80

自引率

2.00%

发文量

146

审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Air Quality, Atmosphere, and Health is a multidisciplinary journal which, by its very name, illustrates the broad range of work it publishes and which focuses on atmospheric consequences of human activities and their implications for human and ecological health. It offers research papers, critical literature reviews and commentaries, as well as special issues devoted to topical subjects or themes. International in scope, the journal presents papers that inform and stimulate a global readership, as the topic addressed are global in their import. Consequently, we do not encourage submission of papers involving local data that relate to local problems. Unless they demonstrate wide applicability, these are better submitted to national or regional journals. Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health addresses such topics as acid precipitation; airborne particulate matter; air quality monitoring and management; exposure assessment; risk assessment; indoor air quality; atmospheric chemistry; atmospheric modeling and prediction; air pollution climatology; climate change and air quality; air pollution measurement; atmospheric impact assessment; forest-fire emissions; atmospheric science; greenhouse gases; health and ecological effects; clean air technology; regional and global change and satellite measurements. This journal benefits a diverse audience of researchers, public health officials and policy makers addressing problems that call for solutions based in evidence from atmospheric and exposure assessment scientists, epidemiologists, and risk assessors. Publication in the journal affords the opportunity to reach beyond defined disciplinary niches to this broader readership.