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2024 May 15
Short-Term Effects of Ambient Air Pollution on Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Admissions in Jiuquan, China
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38787143/

2024 May 27
Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona, Spain
Outdoor air pollution and risk of incident adult haematologic cancer subtypes in a large US prospective cohort
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38802672/


Conclusions: The role of air pollutants on haematologic cancers may have been underestimated previously because of sub-type heterogeneity.

2024 May 30
Wayne State University School of Medicine, Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, Detroit
Particulate Matter Exposure and Default Mode Network Equilibrium during Early Adolescence
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38814823/

... PM2.5 exposure was associated with alterations in the development and equilibrium of the DMN-a network implicated in self-referential processing-and anti-correlated attention networks, which may impact trajectories of cognitive and mental health symptoms across adolescence.

2024 May 30
Maternal Exposure to Environmental Air Pollution and Premature Rupture of Membranes: Evidence from Southern China
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38812259/

CONCLUSIONS Prenatal exposure to AP, particularly during months 6-7 of pregnancy, is associated with an increased risk of PROM. This study extends and strengthens the evidence on the association between prenatal exposure to AP and the risk of PROM, specifically identifying the critical exposure windows.

2024 May 25
A prospective exploration of the urban exposome in relation to headache in the Dutch population-based Occupational and environmental health cohort study (AMIGO)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38810494/

Conclusion: Our results suggested that exposure to air pollution and heat island effects contributed to the reporting of weekly headache episodes in the study population.

2024 May 25
Air pollution exposure, accelerated biological aging, and increased thyroid dysfunction risk: Evidence from a nationwide prospective study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38810493/

Conclusions: Despite the possible underestimation of incident thyroid dysfunction, long-term air pollution exposure may increase the risk of incident thyroid dysfunction, particularly in biologically older participants, with biological aging potentially involved in the mechanisms.

2024 May 30
Effects of ambient air pollution on brain cortical thickness and subcortical volume: A longitudinal neuroimaging study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38815551/

Conclusions: Long-term exposure to PM10 and NO2 may lead to cortical thinning in adults.

2024 May 31
The association between ambient air pollution and colorectal cancer: a Mendelian randomization study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38819028/

Abstract

Mounting epidemiology studies have reported the potential associations between ambient air pollution exposure and colorectal cancer (CRC). However, the genetic association between ambient air pollution and CRC remains unclear. Using the Genome-wide association study (GWAS) data from UK biobank, we explored the genetic association of CRC (5,657 cases and 372,016 controls) with four ambient air pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, NO2, NOx; n = 423,796 to 456,380) under the framework of Mendelian randomization (MR). Our results revealed a significant association between long-term NO2 exposure (per 10 µg/m3) and increased CRC risk, with an odds ratio (OR) of 1.02 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.00-1.03), while no statistical association was found between CRC risk and the other air pollutants. Sensitivity analysis confirmed the robustness of the results. It is imperative to consider the impact of air pollution, particularly NO2, in mitigating the risk of CRC.

2024 May 31
Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution and risk of fetal overgrowth: Systematic review of cohort studies
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38823346/

Conclusions: Fetal overgrowth has implications for the health of both mother and fetus. fetal overgrowth can cause cardiovascular diseases, obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other diseases in adulthood, so it is considered an important issue for the health of the future generation...

2024 May 31
1 Department of Global Health, The Peking University School of Public Health, Beijing, China.
2 Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA.
Air pollution, genetic factors, and chronic rhinosinusitis: A prospective study in the UK Biobank
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38825199/

Conclusions: Long-term exposure to air pollution increases the risk of CRS, particularly CRSwNP underscoring the need to prioritize clean air initiatives and environmental regulations.

2024 Jun 1
ISGlobal, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain
The influence of pre- and postnatal exposure to air pollution and green spaces on infant's gut microbiota: results from the MAMI birth cohort study
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38830395/

Results: Acute exposure in the first week of life and chronic postnatal exposure to NO2 were associated with a reduction in microbial alpha diversity, while the effects of green space exposure were not evident. Acute and chronic (prenatal or postnatal) exposure to NO2 resulted in increased abundance of Haemophilus, Akkermansia, Alistipes, Eggerthella, and Tyzerella populations, while increasing green space exposure associated with increased Negativicoccus, Senegalimassilia and Anaerococcus and decreased Tyzzerella and Lachnoclostridium populations.

2024 Jun
Toxic effect and mRNA mechanism of moon dust simulant induced pulmonary inflammation in rats
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38621634/

2024 Jun 3
How long-term PM exposure may affect all-site cancer mortality: Evidence from a large cohort in southern China
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38833984/

Conclusion: This study provided evidence that long-term exposure to PM may elevate the risk of all-site cancer mortality, emphasizing the potential health benefits of improving air quality for cancer prevention.