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Incident risk and burden of cardiovascular diseases attributable to long-term NO < sub > 2 < /sub > exposure in Chinese adults
CONCLUSIONS: This study provided nationwide cohort evidence for elevated risks of CVD incidence associated with long-term ambient NO2 exposure among Chinese adults, particularly in urban areas and among overweight/obese individuals. Our findings highlighted that reducing NO2 exposure below 2021 WHO guideline could help prevent a substantial portion of incident CVD cases in China.PMID:37478679 | DOI:10.1016/j.envint.2023.108060
Source: Environment International - July 21, 2023 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Kai Wang Yang Yuan Qun Wang Zhiming Yang Yu Zhan Yaqi Wang Fang Wang Yunquan Zhang Source Type: research

Burden of diseases attributed to traffic noise in the metropolis of Tehran in 2017
Environ Pollut. 2022 Feb 21:119042. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2022.119042. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAlthough road traffic noise is the most important source of environmental noise emission in large cities, little is known about health burden. The present study was conducted to estimate the burden of diseases attributed to traffic noise in the metropolis of Tehran in 2017. Using noise maps provided by the municipality of Tehran, we calculated population exposure distribution in term of Ldn and Lnight and the number of DALYs lost due to ischemic heart disease, hypertension, high sleep disturbance, annoyance and stroke endpo...
Source: Environmental Pollution - February 24, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Mansour Shamsipour Narges Zaredar Mohammad Reza Monazzam Zahra Namvar Saman Mohammadpour Source Type: research

Global, regional, and national burdens of ischemic heart disease and stroke attributable to exposure to long working hours for 194 countries, 2000-2016: A systematic analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury
CONCLUSIONS: WHO and ILO estimate exposure to long working hours (≥55 hours/week) is common and causes large attributable burdens of ischemic heart disease and stroke. Protecting and promoting occupational and workers' safety and health requires interventions to reduce hazardous long working hours.PMID:34011457 | DOI:10.1016/j.envint.2021.106595
Source: Environment International - May 20, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Frank Pega B álint Náfrádi Natalie C Momen Yuka Ujita Kai N Streicher Annette M Pr üss-Üstün Technical Advisory Group Alexis Descatha Tim Driscoll Frida M Fischer Lode Godderis Hannah M Kiiver Jian Li Linda L Magnusson Hanson Reiner Rugulies Kathrin Source Type: research

The effect of occupational exposure to noise on ischaemic heart disease, stroke and hypertension: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-Related Burden of Disease and Injury
CONCLUSIONS: For acquiring IHD, we judged the existing body of evidence from human data to provide "limited evidence of harmfulness"; a positive relationship is observed between exposure and outcome where chance, bias, and confounding cannot be ruled out with reasonable confidence. For all other included outcomes, the bodies of evidence were judged as "inadequate evidence of harmfulness". Producing estimates for the burden of CVD attributable to occupational exposure to noise appears to not be evidence-based at this time.PROTOCOL IDENTIFIER: 10.1016/j.envint.2018.09.040.PROSPERO REGISTRATION NUMBER: CRD42018092272.PMID:336...
Source: Environment International - February 22, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Liliane R Teixeira Frank Pega Angel M Dzhambov Alicja Bortkiewicz Denise T Correa da Silva Carlos A F de Andrade Elzbieta Gadzicka Kishor Hadkhale Sergio Iavicoli Martha S Mart ínez-Silveira Ma łgorzata Pawlaczyk-Łuszczyńska Bruna M Rondinone Jadwiga Source Type: research

Long-term exposure to PM and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
The objective of this review is to support the derivation of updated guidelines by the World Health Organization (WHO) by performing a systematic review of evidence of associations between long-term exposure to particulate matter with diameter under 2.5 µm (PM2.5) and particulate matter with diameter under 10 µm (PM10), in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality. As there is especially uncertainty about the relationship at the low and high end of the exposure range, the review needed to provide an indication of the shape of the concentration-response function (CRF). We systematically searched MEDLINE and EMB...
Source: Environment International - July 19, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Chen J, Hoek G Tags: Environ Int Source Type: research

The effect of exposure to long working hours on stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury.
CONCLUSIONS: We judged the existing bodies of evidence for human evidence as "inadequate evidence for harmfulness" for all exposure categories for stroke prevalence and mortality and for exposure to 41-48 h/week for stroke incidence. Evidence on exposure to 48-54 h/week and ≥55 h/week was judged as "limited evidence for harmfulness" and "sufficient evidence for harmfulness" for stroke incidence, respectively. Producing estimates for the burden of stroke attributable to exposures to working 48-54 and ≥55 h/week appears evidence-based, and the pooled effect estimates presented in this systematic review could be used ...
Source: Environment International - June 2, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Descatha A, Sembajwe G, Pega F, Ujita Y, Baer M, Boccuni F, Di Tecco C, Duret C, Evanoff BA, Gagliardi D, Godderis L, Kang SK, Kim BJ, Li J, Magnusson Hanson LL, Marinaccio A, Ozguler A, Pachito D, Pell J, Pico F, Ronchetti M, Roquelaure Y, Rugulies R, Sc Tags: Environ Int Source Type: research

Spatiotemporal assessment of mortality attributable to ambient PM 2.5 exposure in Taiwan during 2008 –2015
In this study, we quantified the spatiotemporal burden of mortality attributable to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5, which is defined as a mass of particles with an aerodynamic dry diameter of ≤ 2.5 μm) in Taiwan during 2008–2015. Hourly concentrations of PM2.5 were obtained from the Taiwan Air Quality Monitoring Network. According to geographical and climatic characteristics, the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration has divided Taiwan into seven air quality regions (AQRs): the North (four districts), Chu-Miao (two districts), Central (three districts), Yun-Chia-Nan (three districts), Kao-Ping (two...
Source: Air Quality, Atmosphere and Health - January 3, 2020 Category: Environmental Health Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 16, Pages 3582: Overview of Meta-Analyses: The Impact of Dietary Lifestyle on Stroke Risk
The objective of our work is to present an overview of meta-analyses that have investigated the impact of different foods and/or drinks in relationship with the risk of stroke events (ischemic/hemorrhagic). The papers to be included in the overview were found in MEDLINE, EMBASE, Scopus, Clinicaltrials.gov, Web of Science, and Cochrane Library and were selected according to the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) flow chart. Quality assessment were made according to the AMSTAR 2 scale. This overview shows that all primary studies came from countries with high income levels. This evide...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - September 24, 2019 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Emma Altobelli Paolo Matteo Angeletti Leonardo Rapacchietta Reimondo Petrocelli Tags: Review Source Type: research

WHO/ILO work-related burden of disease and injury: Protocol for systematic reviews of exposure to occupational noise and of the effect of exposure to occupational noise on cardiovascular disease.
aga JU Abstract BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are developing a joint methodology for estimating the national and global work-related burden of disease and injury (WHO/ILO joint methodology), with contributions from a large network of experts. In this paper, we present the protocol for two systematic reviews of parameters for estimating the number of deaths and disability-adjusted life years from cardiovascular disease attributable to exposure to occupational noise, to inform the development of the WHO/ILO joint methodology. OBJECTIVES: We aim t...
Source: Environment International - January 22, 2019 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Teixeira LR, Azevedo TM, Bortkiewicz A, Corrêa da Silva DT, de Abreu W, de Almeida MS, de Araujo MAN, Gadzicka E, Ivanov ID, Leppink N, Macedo MRV, de S Maciel EMG, Pawlaczyk-Łuszczyńska M, Pega F, Prüss-Üstün AM, Siedlecka J, Stevens GA, Ujita Y, B Tags: Environ Int Source Type: research

Underlying causes of PM2.5-induced premature mortality and potential health benefits of air pollution control in South and Southeast Asia from 1999 to 2014.
Abstract Quantification of spatial and temporal variations in premature mortality attributable to PM2.5 has important implications for air quality control in South and Southeast Asia (SSEA). The number of PM2.5-induced premature deaths during 1999-2014 in SSEA was estimated using an integrated exposure-response model based on 0.01° × 0.01° satellite-retrieved PM2.5 data, population density, and spatially and temporally variable baseline mortality data. The results showed extremely high premature death rates in North India and Bangladesh. PM2.5-induced premature deaths in SSEA increased with small interannua...
Source: Environment International - October 16, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Shi Y, Zhao A, Matsunaga T, Yamaguchi Y, Zang S, Li Z, Yu T, Gu X Tags: Environ Int Source Type: research

Estimating the acute effects of fine and coarse particle pollution on stroke mortality of in six Chinese subtropical cities.
Abstract While increasing evidence suggested that PM2.5 is the most harmful fraction of the particle pollutants, the health effects of coarse particles (PM10-2.5) have been inconclusive, especially on cerebrovascular diseases, we thus evaluated the effects of PM10, PM2.5, and PM10-2.5 on stroke mortality in six Chinese subtropical cities using generalized additive models. We also conducted random-effects meta-analyses to estimate the overall effects across the six cities. We found that PM10, PM2.5, and PM10-2.5 were significantly associated with stroke mortality. Each 10 μg/m3 increase of PM10, PM2.5 and PM10-2...
Source: Environmental Pollution - May 8, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Wang X, Qian Z, Wang X, Hong H, Yang Y, Xu Y, Xu X, Yao Z, Zhang L, Rolling CA, Schootman M, Liu T, Xiao J, Li X, Zeng W, Ma W, Lin H Tags: Environ Pollut Source Type: research

IJERPH, Vol. 15, Pages 602: Characterization of Fine Particulate Matter and Associated Health Burden in Nanjing
In this study, characteristics of particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) over Nanjing were analyzed using hourly and daily averaged PM2.5 concentrations and meteorological parameters collected from nine national monitoring sites during the period of March 2014 to February 2017. Then, the integrated exposure-response (IER) model was applied to assess premature mortality, years of life lost (YLL) attributable to PM2.5, and mortality benefits due to PM2.5 reductions. The concentrations of PM2.5 varied among hours, seasons and years, which can be explained by differences in emission sources, ...
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - March 27, 2018 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Dongyang Nie Mindong Chen Yun Wu Xinlei Ge Jianlin Hu Kai Zhang Pengxiang Ge Tags: Article Source Type: research