Climate change and cardiovascular disease: implications for global health

H Khraishah, B Alahmad, RL Ostergard Jr… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Climate change is the greatest existential challenge to planetary and human health and is
dictated by a shift in the Earth's weather and air conditions owing to anthropogenic activity …

Connections between air pollution, climate change, and cardiovascular health

B Alahmad, H Khraishah, K Althalji, W Borchert… - Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Globally, more people die from cardiovascular disease than any other cause. Climate
change, through amplified environmental exposures, will promote and contribute to many …

[HTML][HTML] Bad air can also kill: residential indoor air quality and pollutant exposure risk during the COVID-19 crisis

S Domínguez-Amarillo, J Fernández-Agüera… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
During the first outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic the population, focusing primarily on
the risk of infection, was generally inattentive to the quality of indoor air. Spain, and the city …

Analysis of the influence of land finance on haze pollution: An empirical study based on 269 prefecture‐level cities in China

X Yang, W Wang, X Su, S Ren, Q Ran… - Growth and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Under the system of political centralization and economic decentralization, the expanding
scale of land finance and the increasingly severe environmental pressure have jointly …

COVID-19 stressors on migrant workers in Kuwait: cumulative risk considerations

B Alahmad, H Kurdi, K Colonna, J Gasana… - BMJ Global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
As a marginalised subpopulation, migrant workers often fall short from protection by public
policies, they take precarious jobs with unsafe working and living conditions and they …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme temperatures and mortality in Kuwait: Who is vulnerable?

B Alahmad, AF Shakarchi, H Khraishah… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Previous climate change temperature-related health studies have been
performed mostly in western countries with relatively cooler temperatures than the Gulf …

Impacts of meteorology and vegetation on surface dust concentrations in Middle Eastern countries

J Li, E Garshick, A Al-Hemoud, S Huang… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Severe dust events have occurred frequently in arid regions, which greatly impacted air
quality, climate, and public health. The Middle East is one of the areas in the world impacted …

Sand and dust storm trajectories from Iraq Mesopotamian flood plain to Kuwait

A Al-Hemoud, A Al-Dousari, H Al-Dashti… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Although Kuwait is greatly impacted by sand and dust storms (SDS) from Southern Iraq, to
date little is known about the nature of these storms. Kuwait is vulnerable to SDS trajectories …

Modeling mortality rates and environmental degradation in Asia and the Pacific: does income group matter?

S Barua, BN Adeleye, D Akam, I Ogunrinola… - … Science and Pollution …, 2022 - Springer
This two-dimensional study makes significant incursions into the health-environment
literature by interrogating whether non-renewable energy moderates the impact of …

Spatio-temporal variability of desert dust storms in Eastern Mediterranean (Crete, Cyprus, Israel) between 2006 and 2017 using a uniform methodology

S Achilleos, P Mouzourides, N Kalivitis, I Katra… - Science of the total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The characteristics of desert dust storms (DDS) have been shown to change in response to
climate change and land use. There is limited information on the frequency and intensity of …