Air pollution exposure is estimated to contribute to approximately seven million early deaths
every year worldwide and more than 3% of disability-adjusted life years lost. Air pollution …

Background Air pollution constitutes the major threat to human health, whereas their
adverse impacts and underlying mechanisms of different particular matters are not clearly …

Allergic diseases are on the rise in the Western world and well-known allergy-protecting and-
driving factors such as microbial and dietary exposure, pollution and smoking mediate their …

Populations are often divided categorically into distinct racial/ethnic groups based on social
rather than biological constructs. Genetic ancestry has been suggested as an alternative to …

Background: Prenatal exposure to air pollution is considered to be associated with adverse
effects on child health. This may partly be mediated by mechanisms related to DNA …

Background: Prenatal exposure to air pollution has been associated with childhood
respiratory disease and other adverse outcomes. Epigenetics is a suggested link between …

To define the diffusion behavior of harmful exhaust substances from diesel vehicles and
support safety risk assessments of underground coal mines, we performed a multi-species …

Asthma prevalence has been on the increase, especially in North America compared with
other continents. However, the prevalence of asthma differs worldwide, and in many …

Air pollution is an issue of increasing interest due to its globally relevant impacts on
morbidity and mortality. Controlled human exposure (CHE) studies are often employed to …

Exposure to airborne particulate matter (PM) has been associated with detrimental health
effects. DNA methylation represents the most well-studied epigenetic factor among the …