Sentences with phrase «exposure to air pollution»

Long - term exposure to air pollution has been linked to an increased risk of heart disease, but the biological process has not been understood.

The aim of the team undertaking the new study was to assess the impact of exposure to air pollution during the walking commute to school.

Using a geographic information system, exposure to air pollution during both the first trimester and the entire pregnancy was assessed for each woman according to her place of residence.

Daily exposure to air pollution from sources including traffic, power plants, and other industrial sources consisting of fine particles in the prenatal period was estimated based on where these mothers lived.

More men than women were found to have the condition, possibly because more men work outside, giving them a higher exposure to air pollution on «bad air quality» days.

This observation illustrated that increased exposure to air pollution was associated with increased risk factors for Type 2 diabetes.

This is the first time that a team of scientists has studied the potential impact on cognitive development of exposure to air pollution in children who walk to school.

Exposure to air pollution more than 30 years ago may still affect an individual's mortality risk today, according to new research.

Changes in HDL levels may already appear after brief and medium - length exposures to air pollution, the authors noted.

People spend approximately 90 percent of their time indoors, so for many people, the risks to health may be greater due to exposure to air pollution indoors than outdoors.

A new study has found that exposure to air pollution around the time of conception increases risk of birth defects.

It showed that, between 2000 and 2010, people of color saw roughly 40 percent higher exposures to air pollution than white people.

Like many toxins, researchers say there's no safe level of exposure to air pollution and pregnancy provides an ideal time to consider the hazards in your surroundings.

Exposure to air pollution more than 30 years ago may still affect an individual's mortality risk today.

They point out that fossil fuels are a major source of air pollution and the major source of greenhouse gases: «Moving away from the use of fossil fuels for energy production will result in major benefits to human health, both from reduced exposure to air pollution and from mitigation of climate change.»

«There is significantly less known about how birds are affected by exposure to air pollution from other types of sources, such as motor vehicles.»

Maternal psychological distress combined with exposure to air pollution during pregnancy have an adverse impact on the child's behavioral development, according to researchers at the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health.

As the researchers hypothesized, anxiety level mediated the link between imagining exposure to air pollution and unethical behavior.

This paper examines the impact of fetal exposure to air pollution on 4th grade test scores in Santiago, Chile.

Chronic exposure to air pollution particles increases the risk of obesity and metabolic syndrome: findings from a natural experiment in Beijing.

«Moreover, we know that lowering exposure to air pollution anywhere will be beneficial to children's health and long - term potential.»

«The evidence base for a role for maternal exposure to air pollution increasing the risk of autism spectrum disorders is becoming quite strong,» said Weisskopf.

Exposure to air pollution as a potential contributor to cognitive function, cognitive decline, brain imaging, and dementia: A systematic review of epidemiologic research.

To do that, they used a set of equations — recently updated based on the most recent epidemiological research — describing how exposure to air pollution affects a person's risk of dying from various diseases.

Exposure to air pollution early in a pregnancy could increase risk for preterm birth and low birth weight, according to a study led by researchers at NYU School of Medicine, and published on July 27 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Psychosocial stress, exposure to air pollution including truck traffic, sleep disruption and changes to socioeconomic status are all biologically plausible pathways for unconventional natural gas development to affect health.

In 2016 in Environmental Health Perspectives, the researchers reported that people with the most exposure to air pollution were also the most likely to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia.

Previous studies have indicated that exposure to air pollution elevates individuals» feelings of anxiety.

Still, Cohen adds, «We need to think about these sources more carefully as we try to reduce human exposure to air pollution.»

(For the general population of women in the study, the researchers found that long - term exposure to air pollution led to small, but not statistically significant, increases in risk of cardiovascular events.)

«It may be, though, that long - term exposure to air pollution makes people more susceptible to ALRI on a routine basis, although additional studies will be required to test this hypothesis.»

Of course, that car contributed to the pollution woes of passing pedestrians and prior research from Kaur and her collaborators showed that walking farther from traffic reduced pedestrian exposure to air pollution by up to 10 percent.

«Further follow - up is needed to assess the role telomere length plays in health outcomes in the context of early life exposure to air pollution.»

«Our data add additional important support to the hypothesis that maternal exposure to air pollution contributes to the risk of autism spectrum disorders,» said Marc Weisskopf, associate professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology and senior author of the study.

Hansell said that more recent exposure to air pollution was more important for health than older exposure.

The researchers found that in all crude and adjusted models, levels of insulin resistance were greater in children with higher exposure to air pollution.

Long - term exposure to air pollution in London is estimated to cause the equivalent of 4,300 premature deaths per year.

«There's a lack of research regarding long - term exposure to air pollution in some of the world's most polluted places, including India,» said Aaron Cohen, an epidemiologist at the Health Effects Institute in Boston.

A follow - up study by the World Health Organization in 2014 upped that estimate to 4.3 million deaths, mainly by including cardiovascular deaths associated with exposure to air pollution.

«Air pollution and cardiovascular disease: Increased risk for women with diabetes: Nationwide study of women reveals that those with diabetes are most susceptible to the adverse cardiovascular risks posed by exposure to air pollution.»

A study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institute supported by the «la Caixa» Banking Foundation, has demonstrated that exposure to air pollution on the way to school can have damaging effects on children's cognitive development.

There, she met a team of physicians connected with the Children's Environmental Health Center at the University of Southern California who were conducting a long - term study on the link between chronic exposure to air pollution from freeway traffic and respiratory illnesses.

Researchers led by Dr Eva Morales of the Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), an ISGlobal research centre, Barcelona, Spain, set out to examine the association of exposure to air pollution during specific trimesters of pregnancy and postnatal life with lung function in preschool children.

A new study has investigated the health impacts and costs of using biomass for power and heat production, concluding that tens of thousands of EU citizens are dying prematurely every year as a result of exposure to air pollution from burning solid biomass.

Exposure to pollution during the second trimester of pregnancy in particular raises the risk of harm to a child's lungs, underlining the multiple public health benefits of policies to reduce exposure to air pollution, say researchers.

More than 1300 people are dying prematurely each year as a result of exposure to air pollution from the 27 facilities considered.

The results were given statistically: bike share users did have an increased mortality rate of 0.03 from crashes and of 0.13 from increased exposure to air pollution.

Nadeau has discovered that in the Fresno children, long - term exposure to air pollution and secondhand smoke switched off two specific genes.

In Southern California communities, exposure to air pollution and traffic emissions stunts children's lung growth, according to USC research.