Air pollution and its health impacts in Malaysia: a review

RSA Usmani, A Saeed, AM Abdullahi, TR Pillai… - Air Quality, Atmosphere …, 2020 - Springer
Air pollution is strongly tied to climate change. Industrialization and fossil fuel combustion
are the main contributors leading to climate change, also being significant sources of air …

Role of atmospheric particulate matter exposure in COVID-19 and other health risks in human: A review

C Zhu, K Maharajan, K Liu, Y Zhang - Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Due to intense industrialization and urbanization, air pollution has become a serious global
concern as a hazard to human health. Epidemiological studies found that exposure to …

The urban built environment, walking and mental health outcomes among older adults: a pilot study

J Roe, A Mondschein, C Neale, L Barnes… - Frontiers in public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The benefits of walking in older age include improved cognitive health (eg, mental alertness,
improved memory functioning) and a reduced risk of stress, depression and dementia …

[HTML][HTML] Particulate matter air pollution and reduced heart rate variability: How the associations vary by particle size in Shanghai, China

C Huang, M Tang, H Li, J Wen, C Wang, Y Gao… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•It remains uncertain which particle size has the strongest effects on HRV.•Smaller
particles showed stronger associations with decreased HRV parameters.•The effects …

Impacts of environmental insults on cardiovascular aging

Y Lan, S Wu - Current environmental health reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review With cardiovascular disease (CVD) being the top cause of
deaths worldwide, it is important to ensure healthy cardiovascular aging through enhanced …

Air pollution-induced autonomic modulation

TE Taylor-Clark - Physiology, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Air pollutants pose a serious worldwide health hazard, causing respiratory and
cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Pollutants perturb the autonomic nervous system …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of unfavorable and toxic environmental conditions on autonomic tone modulations while wearing N95 face masks

V Erkudov, A Pugovkin, K Rozumbetov… - Case Studies in …, 2024 - Elsevier
The wearing of respirators has significantly increased over the last years mainly due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. The prolonged wearing of respirators may have impacted the Heart …

[HTML][HTML] A spatial feature engineering algorithm for creating air pollution health datasets

RSA Usmani, TR Pillai, IAT Hashem, NZ Jhanjhi… - International journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Air pollution is one of the significant causes of mortality and morbidity every year. In recent
years, many researchers have focused their attention on the associations of air pollution and …

Heterogenous canopy in a Lagrangian-Stochastic dispersion model for particulate matter from multiple sources over the Haifa Bay Area

E Fattal, H David-Saroussi, O Buchman, E Tas… - Atmosphere, 2023 - mdpi.com
The Haifa Bay area (HBA) is a major metropolitan area in Israel, which consists of high
volume transportation routes, major industrial complexes, and the largest international …

A Review of the GSTM1 Null Genotype Modifies the Association between Air Pollutant Exposure and Health Problems

DAA Nugrahaningsih… - … Journal of Genomics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Air pollution is one of the significant environmental risks known as the cause of premature
deaths. It has deleterious effects on human health, including deteriorating respiratory …