Ambient air pollution and its influence on human health and welfare: an overview

AA Almetwally, M Bin-Jumah, AA Allam - Environmental Science and …, 2020 - Springer
Human health is closely related to his environment. The influence of exposure to air
pollutants on human health and well-being has been an interesting subject and gained …

SARS‐CoV‐2 infection, COVID‐19 pathogenesis, and exposure to air pollution: What is the connection?

B Woodby, MM Arnold… - Annals of the new York …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Exposure to air pollutants has been previously associated with respiratory viral infections,
including influenza, measles, mumps, rhinovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus …

Factors determining the diffusion of COVID-19 and suggested strategy to prevent future accelerated viral infectivity similar to COVID

M Coccia - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
This study has two goals. The first is to explain the geo-environmental determinants of the
accelerated diffusion of COVID-19 that is generating a high level of deaths. The second is to …

Improved ANFIS model for forecasting Wuhan City Air Quality and analysis COVID-19 lockdown impacts on air quality

MAA Al-Qaness, H Fan, AA Ewees, D Yousri… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this study, we propose an improved version of the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system
(ANFIS) for forecasting the air quality index in Wuhan City, China. We propose a hybrid …

Region-specific air pollutants and meteorological parameters influence COVID-19: A study from mainland China

S Lin, D Wei, Y Sun, K Chen, L Yang, B Liu… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first detected in December 2019 in
Wuhan, China, with 11,669,259 positive cases and 539,906 deaths globally as of July 8 …

Short-term effects of ambient air pollution on the incidence of influenza in Wuhan, China: a time-series analysis

Y Meng, Y Lu, H Xiang, S Liu - Environmental Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Background: Evidence suggests that air pollution is associated with many adverse health
outcomes such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD), respiratory diseases, cancer, and birth …

Short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and type 2 diabetes mortality: A population-based time series study

C Wu, Y Yan, X Chen, J Gong, Y Guo, Y Zhao… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Acute health effects of air pollution on diabetes risk have not been fully studied in
developing countries and the results remain inconsistent. This study aimed to investigate the …

Does air pollution affect the accumulation of technological innovative human capital? Empirical evidence from China and India

F Wang, M Wu - Journal of cleaner production, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, some high-skilled workers tend to escape from areas with severe air pollution. The
phenomenon is more prominent in two emerging economies, China and India, and they are …

Two mechanisms for accelerated diffusion of COVID-19 outbreaks in regions with high intensity of population and polluting industrialization: the air pollution-to-human …

M Coccia - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
What is COVID-19? Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is viral infection that generates a
severe acute respiratory syndrome with serious pneumonia that may result in progressive …

Acute effects of air pollution on the incidence of hand, foot, and mouth disease in Wuhan, China

Z Yang, J Hao, S Huang, W Yang, Z Zhu, L Tian… - Atmospheric …, 2020 - Elsevier
Previous studies have shown that exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with hand,
foot, and mouth disease (HFMD), but the results are limited. Our study aimed to investigate …