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Anthropogenic and Natural Air pollution Emissions Exposures on Lifelong Health
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Anthropogenic and Natural Air pollution Emissions Exposures on Lifelong Health

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Quality and Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2023) | Viewed by 5525

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Prof. Dr. Boyi Yang

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Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health Risk Assessment, Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
Interests: air pollution; gene-environment interaction; environment epidemiology; green space; cardiovascular diseases; children health; birth cohorts
Prof. Dr. Guanghui Dong

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Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Environmental Pollution and Health Risk Assessment, Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou 510080, China
Interests: air pollution; night light; greenspace; perfluorooctanoic acid; environmental epidemiology; toxicology; human health
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Dr. Matthew Browning

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Virtual Reality & Nature (VRN) Lab, Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29631, USA
Interests: environmental epidemology, restorative environments, green space, blue space, environmental psychology, urban greening, mental health, cognitive performance, systematic reviews, virtual reality
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Air pollution remains one of the leading risk factors for human health and has become a global environmental problem. The sources of air pollution included both anthropogenic (e.g., vehicular traffic, industrial activities, and fossil-fuel burning) and natural emissions and differed among geographical regions. The adverse effects of air pollution on health not only depend on its chemical-physical properties, such as concentrations, size, and constituents, but also depend on their interaction with other factors such as air temperature, noise, green space, and social-economic status. Numerous studies have explored the health effects of air pollution and potential underlying mechanisms; however, such evidence remains inconclusive and/or limited in the following aspects. First, environmental exposures in early childhood and through adolescent development set trajectories risks of disease and illness in adulthood. Despite the importance of these exposures on lifelong health, they are less studied and more poorly understood than adulthood exposures. Second, the underlying processes by which air pollution affects health are driven by a broad range of environmental, social and behavioral factors (the exposome) that modify existing biopsychosocial pathways. However, current understaning of the moderation and mediation effects of these factors and furher physiological mechanisms reamains not very clear. Third, novel measures and technologies, such as machine learning, big data, and exposome, are relatively less used in studies concenrning air pollution and health.

Therefore, this Special Issue is open to submissions that study how air pollution affects health from conception through childhood and young adulthood into adulthoood. Especially welcome are studies of the exposome – the combined effects of at least two exposures – and life-course epidemiology frameworks, in addition to commentaries and review articles/meta-analyses. Also, we welcome submissions that focus on advanced and sophisticated approaches to understand myriad environmental exposures and underlying mechanisms.

Prof. Dr. Boyi Yang
Prof. Dr. Guanghui Dong
Prof. Dr. Matthew Browning
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Particulate matter
  • Gaseous pollutants
  • Constituents and sources
  • Mechanism
  • Environmental exposome
  • Health effects assessment
  • Toxicity
  • Mechanism

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Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Fine Particles and Heart Rate in Northwestern China: Findings from 1.8 Million Adults of the Kashgar Prospective Cohort Study (KPCS)
by Zelin Hao, Chuanjiang He, Jia-Xin Li, Haifeng Yang, Shu-Jun Fan, Li-Xin Hu, Xiao-Xuan Liu, Yi-Dan Zhang, Hui-Ling Qiu, Yu-Ting Xie, Gang-Long Zhou, Lu Wang, Xuemei Zhong, Li Li, Ai-Min Xu, Zhoubin Zhang, Chaohui Duan, Bo-Yi Yang and Xiao-Guang Zou
Atmosphere 2023, 14(2), 394; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14020394 - 17 Feb 2023
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Elevated heart rate (HR) can be hypothesized to be involved in the pathways by which ambient air pollution, especially fine particulate matter (PM2.5), causes cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, evidence concerning long-term PM2.5 exposure and HR is still limited. Therefore, [...] Read more.
Elevated heart rate (HR) can be hypothesized to be involved in the pathways by which ambient air pollution, especially fine particulate matter (PM2.5), causes cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, evidence concerning long-term PM2.5 exposure and HR is still limited. Therefore, in this study, we assessed the associations of PM2.5 with HR levels and tachycardia prevalence and explored potential modifiers of the associations. We used baseline data of 1,802,207 adults from the Kashgar Prospective Cohort Study (KPCS). PM2.5 exposure was assessed based on satellite sensing data, meteorological factors, multi-resolution emission inventory, and measurements from ground-based surface monitors measurements. HR was measured using a calibrated electronic sphygmomanometer, and tachycardia was defined as resting heart rate (RHR) equal to or greater than 80 beats per minute. Linear regression and logistic regression models were employed to evaluate the associations of PM2.5 levels with RHR levels and tachycardia prevalence, respectively. Stratified analyses by sex, age, ethnicity, smoking status, alcohol use, and physical activity were also performed. The mean (standard deviation) age of the study participants was 39.4 (15.5) years old. In the adjusted models, an interquartile range (8.8 µg/m3) increase in PM2.5 levels was associated with 0.515 (95% confidence interval: 0.503–0.526) bpm increase in RHR levels and with 1.062-fold (95% confidence interval: 1.059–1.064) increase in the odds of tachycardia. The results were robust against several sensitivity analyses. In addition, we observed the above associations were stronger in participants that were men, of Uyghur ethnicity, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and having physical inactivity, compared to their counterparts. In summary, our findings indicate that long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 may be hazardously associated with HR, and women, Uyghur people, and those with unhealthy lifestyles may be more vulnerable to the hazardous effects. Full article
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Association between Air Quality and Children’s Restorative Experience: A Systematic Review
by Ling Wang, Qiuyi Yang and Qingqing Sun
Atmosphere 2022, 13(11), 1815; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13111815 - 1 Nov 2022
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Prior studies conducted within the realm of environmental psychology and public health have shown that air pollution exposure exerts significant effects on both physical and psychological well-being, especially for children. The roles of air pollution exposure are being increasingly recognized as essential factors [...] Read more.
Prior studies conducted within the realm of environmental psychology and public health have shown that air pollution exposure exerts significant effects on both physical and psychological well-being, especially for children. The roles of air pollution exposure are being increasingly recognized as essential factors influencing children’s restoration. This systematic review provides an overview of existing knowledge of the impact of air pollution on children’s mental health and restorative experience in both outdoor and indoor environments. A list of keywords for paper selection was derived from a systematic investigation of the literature on children’s restorative environments. A total of 228 studies were initially identified, 18 of which met the eligibility criteria. This systematic review summarizes distinctive categories of air pollutants and discusses the assessments for both air pollution exposure and children’s restorative outcomes. Additionally, 16 barriers in air pollution exposure to children’s restorative experience were identified. The findings of this systematic review were concluded in an integrated framework, which have important implications for developing evidence-based and cross-disciplinary research on the air quality and children’s restoration. Full article
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