Investigation of Hydrogen Sulfide Exposure and Lung Function, Asthma and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Geothermal Area of New Zealand

Bates, MN; Crane, J; Balmes, JR; Garrett, N

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0122062

Bates, MN; Crane, J; Balmes, JR; Garrett, N

Abstract

Results have been conflicting whether long-term ambient hydrogen sulfide (H2S) affects lung function or is a risk factor for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Rotorua city, New Zealand, has the world's largest population exposed to ambient H2S-from geothermal sources.

Date

2015

Source

PLoS ONE 10(3): e0122062. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0122062

Item Type

Journal Article

Publisher

PLoS ONE

DOI

10.1371/journal.pone.0122062

Publisher's Version

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0122062

Rights Statement

© 2015 Bates et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.