Cardiovascular disease (CVD) represents the result of underlying genetic predisposition
and lifetime exposure to multiple environmental factors. The past century has seen a …

Air pollution has been linked to numerous adverse health effects and is intuitively a major
issue for the global community. The first report linking environmental pollutants to human …

In this issue, Massimo Stafoggia, in collaboration with a number of epidemiologists and
cardiologists from Italy and Sweden, 1 made a high quality and state-of-the-art analysis of …

Several studies, especially from the USA but also from Europe, have unequivocally
demonstrated that acute as well as long-term exposure to ambient air pollution has multiple …

“One day man will have to fight the noise as fiercely as cholera and plague” predicted Nobel
prize winner Robert Koch in 1910. In fact, the spectrum of diseases has changed …

Neth Heart J (2015) 23: 557–558 DOI 10.1007/s12471-015-0763-9 emissions. Model
projections based on a business-as-usual emission scenario indicate that the contribution of …

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Reduction of environmental pollutants for prevention of cardiovascular disease: it’s time to act …

It is well understood that noise levels below the hearing damaging criterion cause
annoyance, sleep disturbance, cognitive impairment, physiological stress reactions …

Background Recent years have seen increasing interest focused on the contribution of air
pollution to global health, with a growing emphasis on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk …

Noise is considered an environmental stressor adversely affecting well-being and quality of
life, inter-individual communications, and attention and cognitive function and inducing …