Air Pollution

In this video, Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MPH, executive director of research at LUNGevity Foundation, discusses the role of air pollution in the rise of lung cancer incidence.

Long-term air pollution exposure at levels below current U.S., European Union and WHO guidelines was significantly associated with mortality from natural causes, CVD and respiratory disease, according to findings published in The BMJ.

Prenatal exposure to household air pollution increased the risk for pneumonia in the first year of life, researchers reported in Chest.

Black women had higher rates of Alzheimer’s disease and environmental exposure to fine particulate matter than white women, according to a prospective, population-based study in Journals of Gerontology: Series A.

Air pollution is a predictor of poor response to biological treatment in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis, according to a poster session at the EULAR 2021 Congress.

A large global study of urban microbiomes found that each city has its own “molecular echo.”

Among children and adolescents, exposure to short- and long-term high air pollution levels during childhood increased the likelihood of having high BP later in life, researchers reported.

The Healio Editors have compiled a list of the most-read news in pulmonology published in April.

Among patients with COVID-19 and preexisting asthma or COPD, long-term exposure to air pollution was associated with higher odds for hospitalization, according to results of a pilot study published in Respiratory Medicine.

The pandemic’s impact on visual hallucinations in people with impaired vision and increased risks for age-related macular degeneration from air pollution led March retina/vitreous coverage on Healio/OSN.