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 …

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 …

Long term exposure to low level air pollution and mortality in eight European cohorts within the ELAPSE project: pooled analysis

M Strak, G Weinmayr, S Rodopoulou, J Chen… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Objective To investigate the associations between air pollution and mortality, focusing on
associations below current European Union, United States, and World Health Organization …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term exposure to low-level ambient air pollution and incidence of stroke and coronary heart disease: a pooled analysis of six European cohorts within …

K Wolf, B Hoffmann, ZJ Andersen… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution increases the risk of cardiovascular
disease, but evidence is unclear on the health effects of exposure to pollutant concentrations …

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 …

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 …

Long‐Term PM2.5 Exposure and Risks of Ischemic Heart Disease and Stroke Events: Review and Meta‐Analysis

SE Alexeeff, NS Liao, X Liu… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Fine particulate matter< 2.5 µm in diameter (PM2. 5) has known effects on
cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, no study has quantified and compared the …

[HTML][HTML] Particulate matter air pollution: effects on the cardiovascular system

RB Hamanaka, GM Mutlu - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Air pollution is a complex mixture of gaseous and particulate components, each of which has
detrimental effects on human health. While the composition of air pollution varies greatly …

[HTML][HTML] Mortality and morbidity effects of long-term exposure to low-level PM2. 5, BC, NO2, and O3: an analysis of European cohorts in the ELAPSE Project

B Brunekreef, M Strak, J Chen… - … Health Effects Institute, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND The growing scientific evidence for effects of air pollution on health at
concentrations below current air quality standards and the large burden of disease attributed …