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Air Pollution and Respiratory 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 (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 9111

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Dimitra Sifaki-Pistolla

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1. Cancer Registry of Crete, School of Medicine, University of Crete, 700 13 Heraklion, Greece
2. Department of Medical Oncology, University General Hospital of Heraklion, 715 00 Heraklion, Greece
Interests: environmental epidemiology; epidemiology; cancer epidemiology; public health; risk factors; environmental exposures; spatial statistics; geo-epidemiology; respiratory diseases; chronic diseases; COVID-19; prediction models; biostatistics
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Prof. Dr. Kyriakos Souliotis

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1. Faculty of Social and Education Sciences, University of Peloponnese, 20100 Corinth, Greece
2. Health Policy Institute, 15124 Athens, Greece
Interests: public health; chronic diseases; disease modelling; respiratory diseases; air pollution and health
Dr. Vasiliki-Eirini Chatzea

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Hellenic Mediterranean University, Crete 74133, Greece
Interests: public health; epidemiology; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); respiratory diseases; cancer; environmental burden of disease; healthcare management; primary health care; health economics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last three decades, air pollution has remained as one of the major and most immediate environmental threats to human health, causing millions of premature deaths each year and an increase in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs). High-quality evidence in the literature has linked air pollution to numerous adverse health effects, including respiratory disease, cancer, cardiovascular, neurological effects, and birth outcomes. High air pollution concentrations, considered a major threat, could prime an epidemic, especially when it comes to respiratory diseases and lung health.

Exposure to outdoor and/or indoor air pollutants is strongly associated with human health, mainly with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, lung cancer, and respiratory infections, often leading to increased hospitalizations and disease exacerbations, lower quality of life, polypharmacy, more severe disease symptoms, and premature death. Even in times of the COVID-19 pandemic, air pollution has been characterized as a potential risk factor that, along with the societal and clinical factors, may contribute to respiratory health, disease prognosis, and progression.

This Special Issue aims to capture the extent of the link between air pollution and respiratory health by mapping recent and high-quality research on this topic. It also aspires to translate the findings of original researches into recommendations, interventions, and ideas for effective and targeted policy-making on air pollution and the control of respiratory diseases. Therefore, it will embrace all types of studies, including original research (cohorts, case–control studies, time-series studies, cross-sectional studies, spatio-temporal studies, genome-wide studies), interventions or related protocols, clinical research and trials, meta-analysis and systematic reviews, short reports, and commentaries. 

Dr. Dimitra Sifaki-Pistolla
Prof. Dr. Kyriakos Souliotis
Vasiliki-Eirini Chatzea
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • environmental epidemiology
  • environmental risk factors
  • air pollution
  • respiratory health
  • COVID-19
  • respiratory diseases
  • lung cancer
  • COPD
  • asthma
  • disease modeling and spatio-temporal trends

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Health Risks Forecast of Regional Air Pollution on Allergic Rhinitis: High-Resolution City-Scale Simulations in Changchun, China
by Weifang Tong, Xuelei Zhang, Feinan He, Xue Chen, Siqi Ma, Qingqing Tong, Zeyi Wen and Bo Teng
Atmosphere 2023, 14(2), 393; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14020393 - 17 Feb 2023
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Accurate assessments of exposure to urban air pollution with higher traffic emissions and its health risks still face several challenges, such as intensive computation of air pollution modeling and the limited availability of personal activity data. The macroscopic health effects can be transmitted [...] Read more.
Accurate assessments of exposure to urban air pollution with higher traffic emissions and its health risks still face several challenges, such as intensive computation of air pollution modeling and the limited availability of personal activity data. The macroscopic health effects can be transmitted to the whole population for personal prevention via air quality health index (AQHI), but the possibility risk index of the specific allergic diseases is still lacking. This interdisciplinary study aims at evaluating the forecasted results of high-resolution air quality with updated traffic emissions and accessing the potential impacts of outdoor pollution on morbidity of rhinitis for urban residents. A high-resolution modelling system (1 km × 1 km) containing the online traffic emission model (VEIN), meteorological and air quality model (WRF-CHIMERE) and the health impact module was developed. A new health index of Potential Morbidity Risk Index (PMRI) was further established using higher resolution health risk coefficients of major air pollutants on allergic rhinitis, and different methods (with/without considering population distributions) targeting different user groups (residents, hospitals and health administrations) were calculated and analyzed. Operational forecasted results of hourly PMRI can be further combined with online map services to serve as an effective tool for patients with allergic rhinitis to arrange their daily activities so as to avoid acute exacerbation. The forecasted PMRIs accessible to the public will also be beneficial for the public health administrations in planning the medical resource and improving the outpatient efficiency. Full article
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Cardiovascular and Respiratory Health Effects of Fine Particulate Matters (PM2.5): A Review on Time Series Studies
by Wan Rozita Wan Mahiyuddin, Rohaida Ismail, Noraishah Mohammad Sham, Nurul Izzah Ahmad and Nik Muhammad Nizam Nik Hassan
Atmosphere 2023, 14(5), 856; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14050856 - 11 May 2023
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Ambient air pollution remains one of the most important risk factors for health outcomes. In recent years, there has been a growing number of research linking particulate matter (PM) exposure with adverse health effects, especially on cardiovascular and respiratory systems. The objective of [...] Read more.
Ambient air pollution remains one of the most important risk factors for health outcomes. In recent years, there has been a growing number of research linking particulate matter (PM) exposure with adverse health effects, especially on cardiovascular and respiratory systems. The objective of this review is to examine the range and nature of studies on time series analysis of health outcomes affected by PM2.5 across a broad research area. A literature search was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) extension for scoping review framework through a strategic search of PubMed and ScienceDirect online databases for articles from January 2016 to January 2021. Articles were first screened by their titles and abstracts. Then two reviewers independently reviewed and evaluated the full text of the remaining articles for eligibility. Of the 407 potentially relevant studies, 138 articles were included for final analysis. There was an increasing trend in publications from 2016 to 2019 but a decreasing trend in the year 2020. Most studies were conducted in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (69.6%), Europe and Northern America (14.5%) and Latin America and the Caribbean (8.7%), with the majority coming from high- and upper-middle-income countries (95.6%). The main methodology used was Generalized Additive Model (GAM) with Poisson distribution (74.6%). Morbidity was the most common health outcome studied (60.1%), with vulnerable groups (64.5%) often included. The association between PM2.5 and health effects was stronger for respiratory diseases compared to cardiovascular diseases. In short-term studies (less than 7 years), respiratory diseases showed higher risks compared to cardiovascular. However, in long-term studies (7 years and more), cardiovascular showed higher risks. Full article
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