Fields · Physical Sciences · Environmental Science · Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

Air Quality and Health Impacts

This cluster of papers focuses on the health effects of air pollution, particularly related to particulate matter and its impact on cardiovascular disease, mortality, and global burden of disease. The papers cover topics such as exposure assessment, oxidative stress, and the results of various epidemiological studies.

158,056 works

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Most cited

  1. Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution

    C. Arden Pope · 2002 · JAMA · 8,604 citations

  2. An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities

    Douglas W. Dockery, C. Arden Pope, Xiping Xu, John D. Spengler · 1993 · New England Journal of Medicine · 8,187 citations

  3. Nanotoxicology: An Emerging Discipline Evolving from Studies of Ultrafine Particles

    Günter Oberdörster, Eva Oberdörster, Jan Oberdörster · 2005 · Environmental Health Perspectives · 7,873 citations

  4. Health Effects of Fine Particulate Air Pollution: Lines that Connect

    C. Arden Pope, Douglas W. Dockery · 2006 · Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association · 6,775 citations

  5. Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2015

    Aaron J. Cohen, Michael Bräuer, Richard Burnett, H Ross Anderson · 2017 · The Lancet · 6,718 citations

  6. Particulate Matter Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Disease

    Robert D. Brook, Sanjay Rajagopalan, C. Arden Pope, Jeffrey R. Brook · 2010 · Circulation · 6,576 citations

Most recent

  1. Ambient air pollution and subtype-specific breast cancer risk by race and rurality: findings from a population-based study

    Leah Moubadder, Lindsay J. Collin, Maret L. Maliniak, Lauren E. Barber · 2026 · Breast Cancer Research · 0 citations

  2. Influences of socioeconomic and environmental factors on STEMI incidence and related mortality: Insights from the Belgian Environmental Myocardial Infarction Risk (EMIR) Study

    Tom De Potter, Christel Faes, Andreea Motoc, Els Verachtert · 2026 · European Heart Journal Acute Cardiovascular Care · 0 citations

  3. Smog reflection: Air pollution and adoptive social welfare

    Lin Li, Jiliang Han, Yuchun Zhu · 2026 · Environment Development and Sustainability · 0 citations

  4. Cooking Impacts PM 1 in Suburban New York, With Implications for Respiratory Deposition

    A. Groodt, Emily B. Franklin, Michael P. Vermeuel, Trey Maddaleno · 2026 · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 0 citations

  5. A two-stage modeling approach to estimate indoor NO2 exposure: a Barcelona case study

    Alan Domínguez, Yu Zhao, Karl Samuelsson, Pol Jimenez‐Arenas · 2026 · Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology · 0 citations

  6. Comparative Evaluation of Ambient Air Pollution in Owerri Urban and Its Environs, South-eastern Nigeria

    Kingsley Nna Ogbuji · 2026 · IIARD INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT · 0 citations

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