Pollution Exposure Research Articles

Air pollution exposure from wildfires in Alberta, Canada and respiratory emergency visits among children

Air pollution exposure from wildfires in Alberta, Canada and respiratory emergency visits among children

Short Term Air Pollution Exposure is Associated with Hospital Admissions and Emergency Department Visits for Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease

Short Term Air Pollution Exposure is Associated with Hospital Admissions and Emergency Department Visits for Individuals with Sickle Cell Disease

Air Pollution Exposure and Atrial Fibrillation Hospitalizations: A Nationwide Case-Crossover Study in Israel

Air Pollution Exposure and Atrial Fibrillation Hospitalizations: A Nationwide Case-Crossover Study in Israel

Early Life Air Pollution Exposure is Associated with the Infant Gut Microbiome and Fecal Metabolome

Early Life Air Pollution Exposure is Associated with the Infant Gut Microbiome and Fecal Metabolome

Quantifying the diurnal variation in atmospheric NO2 from Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) observations

Abstract. The Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) over Asia is the first geostationary Earth orbit instrument in the virtual constellation of sensors for atmospheric chemistry and composition air quality research and applications. For the first time, the hourly observations enable studies of diurnal variation in several important trace gas and aerosol pollutants including nitrogen dioxide (NO2), which is the focus of this work. NO2 is a regulated pollutant and an indicator of anthropogenic emissions in addition to being involved in tropospheric ozone chemistry and particulate matter formation. We present new quantitative measures of NO2 tropospheric column diurnal variation which can be greater than 50 % of the column amount, especially in polluted environments. The NO2 distribution is seen to change hourly and can be quite different from what would be seen by a once-a-day low-Earth-orbit satellite observation. We use GEMS data in combination with TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) satellite and Pandora ground-based remote sensing measurements and Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry and Aerosols (Version 0, MUSICAv0) 3D chemical transport model analysis to examine the NO2 diurnal variation in January and June 2023 over Northeast Asia and Seoul, South Korea, study regions to distinguish the different emissions, chemistry, and meteorological processes that drive the variation. Understanding the relative importance of these processes will be key to including pollutant diurnal variation in models aimed at determining true pollutant exposure levels for air quality studies. The work presented here also provides a path for investigating similar NO2 diurnal cycles in the new Earth Venture Instrument-1 Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring Pollution (TEMPO) data over North America, and later over Europe with Sentinel-4.

Air pollution exposure and the maternal gut microbiome in early pregnancy: Implications for risk of early birth among African Americans

Air pollution exposure and the maternal gut microbiome in early pregnancy: Implications for risk of early birth among African Americans

A novel concern from two sample Mendelian randomization study: The effects of air pollution exposure on the cardiovascular, respiratory, and nervous system

BackgroundCardiovascular, respiratory, and nervous system diseases have high morbidity and mortality rates, but the causal relationship between air pollution and these diseases remains controversial. MethodsWe conducted a large-scale genome-wide association (GWAS) study using Mendelian randomization (MR) to investigate the association between air pollution like Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), Nitrogen oxides (NOX), Particulate matter with diameter<2.5μm (PM2.5), Particulate matter with diameter<10μm (PM10) and cardiovascular, respiratory, and nervous system diseases, including acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, stroke and Parkinson's disease. This study included 337,199 patients with acute myocardial infarction, 178,726 patients with heart failure, 463,010 patients with asthma, 462,933 patients with COPD, 486,484 patients with pneumonia, 484,598 patients with stroke, and 482,730 patients with Parkinson's disease. All genetic tools were identified from GWAS. The association effects of environmental pollution and these diseases were investigated using MR analysis, sensitivity analysis with heterogeneity, pleiotropy test, and leave-one-out test. ResultsOur MR analysis showed the association between NOX and the development of COPD and stroke (Odds ratio (OR)=1.010, 95 % Confidence interval (CI): 1.000～1.020, P=0.046; OR=1.017, 95 %CI:1.003–1.031, P=0.019), the association between PM2.5 and the development of asthma, COPD and stroke (OR=1.013, 95 %CI:1.003–1.024, P=0.011; OR=1.010, 95 %CI:1.000–1.019, P=0.035; OR=1.019, 95 %CI:1.004–1.033, P=0.012). No significant associations were found between the rest of the air pollution exposures and diseases. Leave-one-out sensitivity analysis showed stable results. ConclusionsThe study clarifies the relationship between air pollution and cardiovascular, respiratory, and nervous system diseases, providing valuable evidence for environmental pollution prevention and population health monitoring, and provides a clear direction and evidence for the subsequent investigation of the association between air pollution and diseases.

Household air pollution exposure assessment using low-cost air monitors: results from a large prospective cohort (HEALS-AIR) study in Bangladesh.

Household air pollution exposure assessment using low-cost air monitors: results from a large prospective cohort (HEALS-AIR) study in Bangladesh.

Life course air pollution exposure and later-life risk of all-cause and cardiovascular specific mortality in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

Life course air pollution exposure and later-life risk of all-cause and cardiovascular specific mortality in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936

Persistent Organic Pollutants Exposure Associated with Increase in Glucose and Decline in β-cell function Among Women with Gestational Diabetes

Persistent Organic Pollutants Exposure Associated with Increase in Glucose and Decline in β-cell function Among Women with Gestational Diabetes

Association of Long-Term Air Pollution Exposure with Cerebrovascular and Other Dementia-Related Neuropathologies at Autopsy in a Community-Based Cohort

Association of Long-Term Air Pollution Exposure with Cerebrovascular and Other Dementia-Related Neuropathologies at Autopsy in a Community-Based Cohort

Long-Term Nitrogen Dioxide Exposure as a Possible 5-Year Mortality Risk Factor in Diabetic Patients Treated Using Off-Pump Surgical Revascularization-A Retrospective Analysis.

Background: There is mounting evidence that diabetic-related cardiac metabolism abnormalities with oxidative stress and inflammatory mechanism activation align with the functional impairments that result in atherosclerotic lesion formation. Among the possible non-traditional coronary lesion risk factors, environmental exposure may be significant, especially in diabetic patients. Methods: A total of 140 diabetic patients (115 (82%) males and 25 (18%) females) with a mean age of 65 (60-71) underwent surgical revascularization due to multivessel coronary disease. The possible all-cause mortality risk factors, including demographical and clinical factors followed by chronic air pollution exposure, were identified. Results: All patients were operated on using the off-pump technique and followed for 5.6 (5-6.1) years. The multivariable model for 5-year mortality prediction presented the nitrogen dioxide chronic exposure (HR: 3.99, 95% CI: 1.16-13.71, p = 0.028) and completeness of revascularization (HR: 0.19, 95% CI: 0.04-0.86, p = 0.031) as significant all-cause mortality risk factors. Conclusions: Ambient air pollutants such as an excessive chronic nitrogen dioxide concentration (>15 µg/m3) may increase 5-year all-cause mortality in diabetic patients following surgical revascularization.

Oxidative Gaseous Air Pollutant Exposure Interacts with PNPLA3 Genotype to Influence Liver Fat Fraction and Multi-Omics Profiles in Young Adults

Oxidative Gaseous Air Pollutant Exposure Interacts with PNPLA3 Genotype to Influence Liver Fat Fraction and Multi-Omics Profiles in Young Adults

Reduced odor identification linked to long-term air pollution exposure: findings from the KORA FIT study in Augsburg, Germany

Reduced odor identification linked to long-term air pollution exposure: findings from the KORA FIT study in Augsburg, Germany

Assessing Community Vulnerability to Neurological Diseases: A National Study of Source-Specific Noise and Air Pollution Exposures near the US Airports

Assessing Community Vulnerability to Neurological Diseases: A National Study of Source-Specific Noise and Air Pollution Exposures near the US Airports

Association between long-term air pollution exposure and risk of autoimmune diseases in South Korea

Association between long-term air pollution exposure and risk of autoimmune diseases in South Korea

Association of maternal air pollution exposure and infant lung function is modified by genetic propensity to oxidative stress

Association of maternal air pollution exposure and infant lung function is modified by genetic propensity to oxidative stress

The effect of low-level air pollution exposure on weight at birth

The effect of low-level air pollution exposure on weight at birth

Ambient air pollution exposure and bladder cancer risk in a U.S. cohort

Ambient air pollution exposure and bladder cancer risk in a U.S. cohort

Mediating effects of placental DNA methylation in the association between prenatal air pollution exposure and child lung function

Mediating effects of placental DNA methylation in the association between prenatal air pollution exposure and child lung function