There is general consensus that environmental pollution and non-chemical stressors
contribute to the incidence and prevalence of chronic noncommunicable disease (eg …

Background: Air pollution has been associated with cardiovascular mortality, but it remains
unclear as to whether specific pollutants are related to specific cardiovascular causes of …

Air pollution is well recognized as a major risk factor for chronic non-communicable
diseases and has been estimated to contribute more to global morbidity and mortality than …

Background Road traffic noise is a major public health issue, given the documented
association with several diseases and the growing number of exposed persons all over the …

Aims Ambient air pollution is a major health risk, leading to respiratory and cardiovascular
mortality. A recent Global Exposure Mortality Model, based on an unmatched number of …

Background: Few European studies have investigated the effects of long-term exposure to
both fine particulate matter (≤ 2.5 µm; PM2. 5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on mortality …

Air pollution has a great impact on health, representing one of the leading causes of death
worldwide. Previous experimental and epidemiological studies suggested the role of …

Abstract Worldwide, up to 8.8 million excess deaths/year have been attributed to air
pollution, mainly due to the exposure to fine particulate matter (PM). Traffic-related noise is …

Urban populations are often simultaneously exposed to air pollution and environmental
noise, which are independently associated with cardiovascular disease. Few studies have …

Traffic noise and air pollution together represent the two most important environmental risk
factors in urbanized societies. The first of this two-part review discusses the epidemiologic …