Air Pollution

In rural areas of Nepal, use of traditional stoves that burn biomass fuel and lack proper ventilation significantly increased indoor exposure to particulate matter and carbon monoxide and were shown to induce inflammatory responses in ex vivo lung tissue, according to research published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

Among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, rash, joint involvement and flares are positively linked with fine particulate matter pollution, according to a spatial-time cluster analysis published in Arthritis & Rheumatology.

Recent studies have illustrated various associations between fine particulate matter, vehicle emissions and a variety of gaseous pollutants and increased risk for CVD, cardiac arrest and diminished vascular function across the globe.

Present-day asthma-related ED visits are more than twice as high in California neighborhoods that were deprioritized for mortgage investments, or redlined, in the 1930s when compared with areas that were deemed less risky for investments, according to a study published in The Lancet Planetary Health.

Adults from India who live in areas with more air pollution have lower bone mineral content and bone mineral density compared with those living in areas with less fine particulate matter and black carbon in the air, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open.

A review published in Environmental Research summarized per-case cost estimates for six air pollution-related childhood health conditions — estimates that may be used for benefit assessments for air pollution regulations and climate change policies, the authors said.

Higher levels of air pollution exposure may be associated with increased rates of depression and death by suicide among those exposed, according to results of a systematic review and meta-analysis published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

A new report published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society suggests that interventions to reduce air pollution can dramatically improve health outcomes.

Air pollution may be associated with mortality in patients after undergoing a heart transplant, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Although COPD mortality rates have declined from 1995 to 2017 in many countries, the total number of deaths attributable to COPD has increased during the past 20 years, according to new data published in the European Respiratory Journal.