Car free cities: Pathway to healthy urban living

MJ Nieuwenhuijsen, H Khreis - Environment international, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Many cities across the world are beginning to shift their mobility solution away
from the private cars and towards more environmentally friendly and citizen-focused means …

[HTML][HTML] Urban and transport planning, environmental exposures and health-new concepts, methods and tools to improve health in cities

MJ Nieuwenhuijsen - Environmental health, 2016 - Springer
Background The majority of people live in cities and urbanization is continuing worldwide.
Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of innovation and wealth …

Historical redlining is associated with present-day air pollution disparities in US cities

HM Lane, R Morello-Frosch, JD Marshall… - … science & technology …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Communities of color in the United States are systematically exposed to higher levels of air
pollution. We explore here how redlining, a discriminatory mortgage appraisal practice from …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of air pollution on COVID-19 related mortality in northern Italy

ES Coker, L Cavalli, E Fabrizi, G Guastella… - Environmental and …, 2020 - Springer
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollutant concentrations is known to cause chronic lung
inflammation, a condition that may promote increased severity of COVID-19 syndrome …

Early-life environmental exposures and childhood obesity: an exposome-wide approach

M Vrijheid, S Fossati, L Maitre, S Márquez… - Environmental …, 2020 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Chemical and nonchemical environmental exposures are increasingly
suspected to influence the development of obesity, especially during early life, but studies …

Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

R Beelen, O Raaschou-Nielsen, M Stafoggia… - The lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background Few studies on long-term exposure to air pollution and mortality have been
reported from Europe. Within the multicentre European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution …

Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts: prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

O Raaschou-Nielsen, ZJ Andersen, R Beelen… - The lancet …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background Ambient air pollution is suspected to cause lung cancer. We aimed to assess
the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and lung cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Mortality and morbidity effects of long-term exposure to low-level PM2. 5, bc, NO2, and O3: an analysis of European cohorts in the ELAPSE project

B Brunekreef, M Strak, J Chen… - … Health Effects Institute, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND The growing scientific evidence for effects of air pollution on health at
concentrations below current air quality standards and the large burden of disease attributed …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of linear regression, regularization, and machine learning algorithms to develop Europe-wide spatial models of fine particles and nitrogen …

J Chen, K de Hoogh, J Gulliver, B Hoffmann… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Empirical spatial air pollution models have been applied extensively to assess exposure in
epidemiological studies with increasingly sophisticated and complex statistical algorithms …

[HTML][HTML] Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and incidence of acute coronary events: prospective cohort study and meta-analysis in 11 European cohorts from …

G Cesaroni, F Forastiere, M Stafoggia, ZJ Andersen… - Bmj, 2014 - bmj.com
Objectives To study the effect of long term exposure to airborne pollutants on the incidence
of acute coronary events in 11 cohorts participating in the European Study of Cohorts for Air …