 Air Pollution
"Air Pollution" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The presence of contaminants or pollutant substances in the air (AIR POLLUTANTS) that interfere with human health or welfare, or produce other harmful environmental effects. The substances may include GASES; PARTICULATE MATTER; or volatile ORGANIC CHEMICALS.
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D000397
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| MeSH Number(s) |
N06.850.460.100
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Air Pollution" by people in this website by year, and whether "Air Pollution" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1998 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 1999 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2000 | 6 | 0 | 6 | | 2001 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2002 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2003 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2004 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2005 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2006 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2007 | 4 | 0 | 4 | | 2008 | 7 | 1 | 8 | | 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2010 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2011 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2012 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2013 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2014 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2015 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2016 | 8 | 4 | 12 | | 2017 | 10 | 7 | 17 | | 2018 | 9 | 3 | 12 | | 2019 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2020 | 13 | 3 | 16 | | 2021 | 17 | 2 | 19 | | 2022 | 14 | 0 | 14 | | 2023 | 17 | 0 | 17 | | 2024 | 19 | 7 | 26 | | 2025 | 5 | 5 | 10 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Air Pollution" by people in Profiles.
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Zhou L, Xiong Y, Sera F, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Abrutzky R, Guo Y, Tong S, de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho M, Nascimento Saldiva PH, Lavigne E, Correa PM, Ortega NV, Osorio S, Roye D, Kyselý J, Orru H, Maasikmets M, Jaakkola JJK, Ryti N, Pascal M, Huber V, Breitner-Busch S, Schneider A, Katsouyanni K, Samoli E, Entezari A, Mayvaneh F, Goodman P, Zeka A, Raz R, Scortichini M, Stafoggia M, Honda Y, Hashizume M, Ng CFS, Alahmad B, Diaz MH, Félix Arellano EE, Overcenco A, Klompmaker J, Rao S, Carrasco G, Seposo X, Chua PLC, Pereira da Silva SDN, Madureira J, Holobaca IH, Scovronick N, Garland RM, Kim H, Lee W, Tobias A, Íñiguez C, Forsberg B, Ragettli MS, Guo YL, Pan SC, Li S, Masselot P, Colistro V, Bell M, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Dang TN, Van Dung D, Gasparrini A, Huang Y, Kan H. Associations of ambient exposure to benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene with daily mortality: a multicountry time-series study in 757 global locations. Lancet Planet Health. 2025 Sep; 9(9):101306.
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Haskell-Craig Z, Josey KP, Kinney PL, deSouza P. Equity in the Distribution of Regulatory PM2.5 Monitors. Environ Sci Technol. 2025 Aug 05; 59(30):15843-15852.
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Weisner ML, Varner PM, Ku IT, Collett JL, Buck B, McKenzie LM. Cumulative Human Health Risk Assessment of Regional Ozone and Volatile Organic Compounds from Unconventional Oil and Gas Sites in Colorado's Front Range. Environ Health Perspect. 2025 May; 133(5):57025.
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Liao M, Zhang S, He C, Breitner S, Cyrys J, Naumann M, Braadt L, Traidl-Hoffmann C, Hammel G, Peters A, Ertl M, Schneider A. Air pollution and stroke: Short-term exposure's varying effects on stroke subtypes. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2025 Jun 15; 298:118296.
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Ni W, Areal AT, Lechner K, Breitner S, Zhang S, Woeckel M, Slesinski SC, Nikolaou N, Dallavalle M, Schikowski T, Schneider A. Low and high air temperature and cardiovascular risk. Atherosclerosis. 2025 07; 406:119238.
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deSouza PN, Shea AA, Vitzthum VJ, Duarte F, Hanly CG, Timmons M, Huguelet P, Sammel MD, Ratti C, Braun D, Nethery RC. The effect of air pollution exposure on menstrual cycle health using self-reported data from a mobile health app: a prospective, observational study. Lancet Planet Health. 2025 May; 9(5):e364-e373.
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Park SL, Lichtensztajn D, Yang J, Wu J, Shariff-Marco S, Stram DO, Inamdar P, Fruin S, Larson T, Tseng C, Setiawan VW, Gomez SL, Samet J, Le Marchand L, Wilkens LR, Ritz B, Wu AH, Cheng I. Ambient Air Pollution and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: The Multiethnic Cohort Study. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 May; 22(5):698-706.
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Oscilowicz E, Solís GA, Martinez L, Németh J, Simon GL, Makarewicz C, Dickinson KL, Mckenzie LM, Scandlyn J, Erices-Ocampo P, Kinney PL, DeSouza P. The Role of Community Science in Addressing Policy Change: A Critical Review of Air Pollution Literature. Curr Environ Health Rep. 2025 Mar 31; 12(1):17.
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Sasse SK, Dahlin A, Sanford L, Gruca MA, Gupta A, Gally F, Wu AC, Iribarren C, Dowell RD, Weiss ST, Gerber AN. Enhancer RNA transcription pinpoints functional genetic variants linked to asthma. Nat Commun. 2025 Mar 31; 16(1):2750.
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Wolf K, Dallavalle M, Niedermayer F, Bolte G, Lakes T, Schikowski T, Greiser KH, Schwettmann L, Westerman R, Nikolaou N, Staab J, Wolff R, Stübs G, Rach S, Schneider A, Peters A, Hoffmann B. Environmental exposure assessment in the German National Cohort (NAKO). Environ Res. 2025 May 15; 273:121259.
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