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Open AccessPerinatal exposure to traffic related air pollutants and the risk of infection in the first six months of life: a cohort study from a low-middle income country
There is limited study from low-and-middle income countries on the effect of perinatal exposure to air pollution and the risk of infection in infant. We assessed the association between perinatal exposure to t...
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Long-term air pollution exposure and malignant intracranial tumours of the central nervous system: a pooled analysis of six European cohorts
Risk factors for malignant tumours of the central nervous system (CNS) are largely unknown.
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Open AccessAssociation between exposure to multiple air pollutants, transportation noise and cause-specific mortality in adults in Switzerland
Long-term exposure to air pollution and noise is detrimental to health; but studies that evaluated both remain limited. This study explores associations with natural and cause-specific mortality for a range of...
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Open AccessThe effect of exposure to traffic related air pollutants in pregnancy on birth anthropometry: a cohort study in a heavily polluted low-middle income country
Ambient air pollution has been recognized as one of the most important environmental health threats. Exposure in early life may affect pregnancy outcomes and the health of the offspring. The main objective of ...
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Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and bladder cancer incidence in a pooled European cohort: the ELAPSE project
The evidence linking ambient air pollution to bladder cancer is limited and mixed.
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Evaluating size-fractioned indoor particulate matter in an urban hospital in Iran
Hospitals host vulnerable people with potentially enhanced sensitivity to air pollutants. We measured particulate matter (PM) including PM1, PM2.5, and PM10 with a portable device in a hospital, a nearby referenc...
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Open AccessEffects of exposure to surrounding green, air pollution and traffic noise with non-accidental and cause-specific mortality in the Dutch national cohort
Everyday people are exposed to multiple environmental factors, such as surrounding green, air pollution and traffic noise. These exposures are generally spatially correlated. Hence, when estimating association...
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Habitual exercise is associated with reduced risk of diabetes regardless of air pollution: a longitudinal cohort study
Physical activity may increase a person’s inhalation of air pollutants and exacerbate the adverse health effects. This study aimed to investigate the combined associations of chronic exposure to particulate ma...
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Open AccessDoes fine particulate matter (PM2.5) affect the benefits of habitual physical activity on lung function in adults: a longitudinal cohort study
Physical activity (PA) increases a person’s inhalation of air pollutants due to greater ventilation, possibly leading to larger adverse health effects. This study aims to investigate the combined effects of lo...
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Open AccessRelations between air pollution and vascular development in 5-year old children: a cross-sectional study in the Netherlands
Air pollution has been shown to promote cardiovascular disease in adults. Possible mechanisms include air pollution induced changes in arterial wall function and structure. Atherosclerotic vascular disease is ...
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Open AccessHigh resolution annual average air pollution concentration maps for the Netherlands
Long-term exposure to air pollution is considered a major public health concern and has been related to overall mortality and various diseases such as respiratory and cardiovascular disease. Due to the spatial...
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Error in air pollution exposure model determinants and bias in health estimates
Land use regression (LUR) models are commonly used in environmental epidemiology to assign spatially resolved estimates of air pollution to study participants. In this setting, estimated LUR model parameters a...
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Open AccessMethods for Assessing Long-Term Exposures to Outdoor Air Pollutants
Epidemiological studies of health effects of long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution rely on different exposure assessment methods. This review discusses widely used methods with a special focus on new dev...
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Open AccessCan dispersion modeling of air pollution be improved by land-use regression? An example from Stockholm, Sweden
Both dispersion modeling (DM) and land-use regression modeling (LUR) are often used for assessment of long-term air pollution exposure in epidemiological studies, but seldom in combination. We developed a hybr...
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Open AccessExposure to Ambient Air Pollution and the Risk of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A European Nested Case–Control Study
Industrialization has been linked to the etiology of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
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Outdoor ultrafine particle concentrations in front of fast food restaurants
Ultrafine particles (UFPs) have been associated with negative effects on human health. Emissions from motor vehicles are the principal source of UFPs in urban air. A study in Vancouver suggested that UFP conce...
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“The Invisible Made Visible”: Science and Technology
This chapter gives a comprehensive overview of the urban ILM (Innovatief Lucht Meetsysteem, English: Innovative Air Measurement System) that has been installed to monitor air quality in the Dutch City of Eindh...
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Effects of air pollution on lung function and symptoms of asthma, rhinitis and eczema in primary school children
Health effects of ambient air pollution were studied in three groups of schoolchildren living in areas (suburban, urban and urban-traffic) with different air pollution levels in Eskişehir, Turkey. This study i...
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Open AccessLong-term air pollution exposure and cardio- respiratory mortality: a review
Current day concentrations of ambient air pollution have been associated with a range of adverse health effects, particularly mortality and morbidity due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. In this rev...
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Open AccessRelationship between area-level socioeconomic characteristics and outdoor NO2concentrations in rural and urban areas of northern Spain
Socioeconomic variables are associated with mortality and morbidity in a variety of diseases at both the individual and neighborhood level. Investigating whether low socioeconomic status populations are expose...
