The Lancet women and cardiovascular disease Commission: reducing the global burden by 2030

B Vogel, M Acevedo, Y Appelman, CNB Merz… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women. Decades of grassroots
campaigns have helped to raise awareness about the impact of cardiovascular disease in …

[HTML][HTML] Air pollution, physical activity and health: A mapping review of the evidence

M Tainio, ZJ Andersen, MJ Nieuwenhuijsen, L Hu… - Environment …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Exposure to air pollution and physical inactivity are both significant risk factors
for non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These risk factors are also linked so that the …

Environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease: lessons learned from air pollution

SG Al-Kindi, RD Brook, S Biswal… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

Environmental risk factors and cardiovascular diseases: a comprehensive expert review

T Münzel, O Hahad, M Sørensen… - Cardiovascular …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are fatal for more than 38 million people each year
and are thus the main contributors to the global burden of disease accounting for 70% of …

Sex differences in arterial hypertension: a scientific statement from the ESC Council on Hypertension, the European Association of Preventive Cardiology, Association …

E Gerdts, I Sudano, S Brouwers, C Borghi… - European Heart …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
There is strong evidence that sex chromosomes and sex hormones influence blood
pressure (BP) regulation, distribution of cardiovascular (CV) risk factors and co-morbidities …

Cardiovascular disease burden from ambient air pollution in Europe reassessed using novel hazard ratio functions

J Lelieveld, K Klingmüller, A Pozzer… - European heart …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

S Rajagopalan, SG Al-Kindi, RD Brook - Journal of the American College of …, 2018 - jacc.org
Abstract Fine particulate matter< 2.5 μm (PM2. 5) air pollution is the most important
environmental risk factor contributing to global cardiovascular (CV) mortality and disability …

Air pollution and noncommunicable diseases: A review by the Forum of International Respiratory Societies' Environmental Committee, Part 2: Air pollution and organ …

DE Schraufnagel, JR Balmes, CT Cowl, S De Matteis… - Chest, 2019 - Elsevier
Although air pollution is well known to be harmful to the lung and airways, it can also
damage most other organ systems of the body. It is estimated that about 500,000 lung …

PM2.5 air pollution and cause-specific cardiovascular disease mortality

RB Hayes, C Lim, Y Zhang, K Cromar… - International journal …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Background Ambient air pollution is a modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease, yet
uncertainty remains about the size of risks at lower levels of fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) …

The Lancet Commission on pollution and health

PJ Landrigan, R Fuller, NJR Acosta, O Adeyi, R Arnold… - The lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Pollution is the largest environmental cause of disease and premature
death in the world today. Diseases caused by pollution were responsible for an estimated 9 …