Objective To investigate the relationship between air pollution and the acute respiratory symptoms in children in Taiyuan,China.Methods A case-crossover design was used to study the association between air pollution and the acute respiratory symptoms of 254 children aged 7-11 in a school in 2005.Results The acute respiratory symptoms(cough,nose running,stuffy nose and angina)increased as the air concentration of PM10 increased.Conclusion There seems to be a positive association between air pollution of PM10 and the acute respiratory symptoms in children in Taiyuan.

The association of the progress of diabetic nephropathy with the sclerosis of major artery was investigated.Carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) was positively correlated with urinary albumin and creatinine ratio,and negatively correlated with glomerular filtration rate in diabetes group,suggesting that thickened CIMT may predict the increasing risk of clinical nephropathy in the patients with microalbuminuria.