Environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease: lessons learned from air pollution

SG Al-Kindi, RD Brook, S Biswal… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Air pollution is well recognized as a major risk factor for chronic non-communicable
diseases and has been estimated to contribute more to global morbidity and mortality than …

The COVID-19 lockdowns: a window into the Earth System

NS Diffenbaugh, CB Field, EA Appel… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Restrictions to reduce human interaction have helped to avoid greater suffering and death
from the COVID-19 pandemic, but have also created socioeconomic hardship. This …

Changes in US air pollution during the COVID-19 pandemic

JD Berman, K Ebisu - Science of the total environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 global pandemic has likely affected air quality due to extreme changes in
human behavior. We assessed air quality during the COVID-19 pandemic for fine particulate …

Particulate matter air pollution: effects on the cardiovascular system

RB Hamanaka, GM Mutlu - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Air pollution is a complex mixture of gaseous and particulate components, each of which has
detrimental effects on human health. While the composition of air pollution varies greatly …

Health impact of China's Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan: an analysis of national air quality monitoring and mortality data

J Huang, X Pan, X Guo, G Li - The Lancet Planetary Health, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background To mitigate the serious levels of air pollution in China, the State Council of
China issued the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan (APPCAP) in 2013. This …

Short-term and long-term health impacts of air pollution reductions from COVID-19 lockdowns in China and Europe: a modelling study

P Giani, S Castruccio, A Anav, D Howard… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2020 - thelancet.com
Background Exposure to poor air quality leads to increased premature mortality from
cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Among the far-reaching implications of the ongoing …

Overview of particulate air pollution and human health in China: Evidence, challenges, and opportunities

Q Zhang, X Meng, S Shi, L Kan, R Chen, H Kan - The Innovation, 2022 - cell.com
Ambient particulate matter (PM) pollution in China continues to be a major public health
challenge. With the release of the new WHO air quality guidelines in 2021, there is an urgent …

The contribution of the exposome to the burden of cardiovascular disease

T Münzel, M Sørensen, O Hahad… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Large epidemiological and health impact assessment studies at the global scale, such as
the Global Burden of Disease project, indicate that chronic non-communicable diseases …

Particulate matter exposure and stress hormone levels: a randomized, double-blind, crossover trial of air purification

H Li, J Cai, R Chen, Z Zhao, Z Ying, L Wang, J Chen… - Circulation, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background: Exposure to ambient particulate matter (PM) is associated with a number of
adverse health outcomes, but potential mechanisms are largely unknown. Metabolomics …

Short-term elevation of fine particulate matter air pollution and acute lower respiratory infection

BD Horne, EA Joy, MG Hofmann… - American journal of …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Nearly 60% of US children live in counties with particulate matter less than or
equal to 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2. 5) concentrations above air quality …