Publications by authors named "Arni Sigurdsson"
Article Synopsis
- * Most persistent organic pollutants (POPs) showed declining trends, except for hexachlorobenzene (HCB), which either increased or remained stable across the stations.
- * Chemicals of Emerging Arctic Concern (CEAC) showed stable or increasing trends, highlighting the need for continued monitoring and consistent data to assess the effectiveness of chemical regulations.
Temporal trends of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) measured in Arctic air are essential in understanding long-range transport to remote regions and to evaluate the effectiveness of national and international chemical control initiatives, such as the Stockholm Convention (SC) on POPs. Long-term air monitoring of POPs is conducted under the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) at four Arctic stations: Alert, Canada; Stórhöfði, Iceland; Zeppelin, Svalbard; and Pallas, Finland, since the 1990s using high volume air samplers. Temporal trends observed for POPs in Arctic air are summarized in this study.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is important clinically because it is associated with heart failure, arrhythmia, myocardial infarction and stroke. The purpose of this study was to assess how well traditional ECG voltage criteria predict coronary heart disease mortality amongst males and to find the QRS voltages that best combine sensitivity and specificity in this sense.
Material And Methods: Our study is a random population cohort study initiated in 1967.