Air Pollutants
"Air Pollutants" 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.
Any substance in the air which could, if present in high enough concentration, harm humans, animals, vegetation or materials. Substances include GASES; PARTICULATE MATTER; and volatile ORGANIC CHEMICALS.
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D000393
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.888.284.101
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| Concept/Terms |
Air Pollutants, Environmental- Air Pollutants, Environmental
- Environmental Pollutants, Air
- Air Environmental Pollutants
- Pollutants, Air Environmental
- Environmental Air Pollutants
- Pollutants, Environmental Air
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| 1996 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 1997 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 1998 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2000 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2001 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2003 | 3 | 1 | 4 | | 2004 | 9 | 2 | 11 | | 2005 | 9 | 2 | 11 | | 2006 | 4 | 1 | 5 | | 2007 | 11 | 1 | 12 | | 2008 | 9 | 1 | 10 | | 2009 | 6 | 0 | 6 | | 2010 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2011 | 7 | 2 | 9 | | 2012 | 9 | 1 | 10 | | 2013 | 10 | 1 | 11 | | 2014 | 8 | 3 | 11 | | 2015 | 9 | 2 | 11 | | 2016 | 13 | 4 | 17 | | 2017 | 10 | 6 | 16 | | 2018 | 17 | 1 | 18 | | 2019 | 10 | 2 | 12 | | 2020 | 20 | 3 | 23 | | 2021 | 20 | 0 | 20 | | 2022 | 13 | 0 | 13 | | 2023 | 22 | 3 | 25 | | 2024 | 23 | 7 | 30 | | 2025 | 22 | 5 | 27 | | 2026 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Air Pollutants" by people in Profiles.
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Li Y, Zhang S, Diaz-Sanchez D, Wolf K, Rückert-Eheberg IM, Kääb S, Schmidt G, Strom A, Peters A, Schneider A, Breitner-Busch S. Sex-specific associations between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and the cardiac conduction system - a longitudinal analysis of the KORA cohort. Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2026 Jul; 276:114850.
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Li X, Chengcheng J, Zhang C, Lin Q, D'Evelyn SM, Clark T, Bein KJ, Zhang Q, Lundberg A, Kado S, Connolly JC, Haarmann-Stemmann T, Niedek CR, He Y, Li W, Pinkerton KE, Vogel CFA. Regional and size-dependent effects of ambient agricultural particulate matter on Ah-receptor activity and inflammatory responses in human U937 macrophages. Inhal Toxicol. 2026 Aug; 38(7):394-415.
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Choi Y, Byun G, Kim H, Stewart R, Song Y, Heo S, Lee JT, Tong S, Lavigne E, Valdés Ortega N, Matus Correa P, Osorio S, Achilleos S, Kyselý J, Urban A, Roye D, Orru H, Maasikmets M, Jaakkola JJK, Ryti N, Pascal M, Schneider A, Breitner S, Katsouyanni K, Samoli E, Carlsen HK, Entezari A, Mayvaneh F, Raz R, Stafoggia M, de'Donato F, Hashizume M, Ng CFS, Madaniyazi L, Hurtado Diaz M, Arellano EEF, Klompmaker J, Rao S, Madureira J, Gaio V, Guo Y, Scovronick N, Garland RM, Kim H, Lee W, Forsberg B, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Ragettli MS, Guo YL, Pan SC, Armstrong B, Sera F, Gasparrini A, Masselot P, Mistry M, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Bell ML. Temporal changes in mortality risk associated with PM10 across 143 cities in 26 countries: a multicountry, multicity time-series study. Lancet Planet Health. 2026 May; 10(5):101465.
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Gering SM, Dillner AM, Copeland S, Fierer N. Spatiotemporal dynamics in airborne fungi and allergenic fungal taxa across the United States. Appl Environ Microbiol. 2026 06 17; 92(6):e0005926.
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Hong SI, Park S, Kim J, Park S, Moon J, de Gouw J, Yu J, Yoon S, Kim J, Kim H. Episodic and source-resolved VOC emissions in a petrochemical complex: Insights from real-time measurements. Environ Pollut. 2026 May 15; 397:128032.
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Niedermayer F, Hoffmann B, Zhang B, Chen J, Hart JE, Laden F, Bolte G, Lakes T, Schikowski T, Greiser KH, Staab J, Nikolaou N, Dallavalle M, Schulze MB, Lieb W, Övermöhle C, Tönnies T, Katzke V, Becher H, Fischer B, Leitzmann M, Berger K, Mayvaneh F, Keil T, Krist L, Klett-Tammen CJ, Heise JK, Pischon T, Moreno Velásquez I, Schmidt B, Nagrani R, Rach S, Brenner H, Holleczek B, Harth V, Obi N, Köttgen A, Mikolajczyk R, Meinke-Franze C, Hoffmann W, Schneider A, Wolf K, Peters A. Sex-specific individual and joint associations of multiple environmental exposures with diabetes and obesity in the population-based German National Cohort (NAKO). Environ Res. 2026 May 15; 297:124096.
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Dresser W, Ridgway K, Helfrich A, L'Orange C, Jathar S, de Gouw J. Laboratory Analysis of VOC Emissions from Structural Materials in Wildland-Urban Interface Fires. Environ Sci Technol. 2026 Mar 10; 60(9):7251-7259.
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Wagatsuma K, Feurer D, Yu W, Xu R, Riffe T, Kniffka MS, Acosta E, Armstrong B, Mistry M, Lowe R, Royé D, Hashizume M, Tobias A, Vicedo-Cabrera AM, Madaniyazi L, Sheng Ng CF, Íñiguez C, Ragettli MS, Lavigne E, Correa PM, Ortega NV, Kyselý J, Urban A, Orru H, Indermitte E, Maasikmets M, Breitner-Busch S, Schneider A, Honda Y, Alahmad B, Zanobetti A, Schwartz J, Carrasco G, Holobâca IH, Kim H, Lee W, Bell ML, Scovronick N, Acquaotta F, de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coelho M, Diaz MH, Félix Arellano EE, Michelozzi P, Stafoggia M, de'Donato F, Rao S, Seposo X, Tong S, Klompmaker J, Guo Y, Masselot P, Gasparrini A, Sera F. The joint impact of temperature, humidity, and air pollution on COVID-19 incidence: a multi-country time-series study in 439 cities. Environ Int. 2026 Feb; 208:110090.
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Ni Y, Law A, Gao X, Szpiro AA, Loftus CT, Jones M, Dearborn LC, Hazlehurst MF, Sherris AR, Ilango S, LeWinn KZ, Bush NR, Zhao Q, Trasande L, Flynn JT, Enquobahrie DA, Nguyen RHN, O'Connor T, Vyas AK, Zhang M, Mirzakhani H, Hipwell A, Starling A, Peterson AK, Ghassabian A, Ferrara A, Aschner J, Collingwood S, Karagas MR, Katzow M, Stroustrup A, Haktnair M, Hartert TV, Snyder BM, Jan S, Singh AM, Dabelea D, Malek AM, Straughen JK, Camargo CA, Buxton MA, Wright R, Carroll K, Sanderson K, Mitchell DK, D'Sa V, Hockett C, Dunlop AL, Farzen SF, Mumford SL, Alshawabkeh AN, Santos HP, Zhang X, Niu Z, Ji N, Breton C, Liang D, Karr CJ. Pre- and postnatal exposure to PM2.5 and NO2 and blood pressure in children: Results from the ECHO Cohort. Environ Res. 2026 Mar 01; 292:123529.
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Nzegwu AW, Dickerson AS, Miller K, Szpiro A, Hipwell AE, Elliot AJ, Padula AM, Dunlop AL, Starling AP, Ferrara A, Breton CV, Loftus CT, McEvoy CT, Dabelea D, Koinis-Mitchell D, Liang D, Oken E, Barrett ES, Volk H, Gern JE, Stanford JB, Herbstman JB, Wu J, Lyall K, Trasande L, Leve LD, Karagas MR, Pini N, Wright RJ, Nguyen RHN, Schantz SL, O'Connor TG, Sathyanarayana S, Karr CJ, Enquobahrie DA. Gestational fine particulate matter exposure and perinatal outcomes in the ECHO cohort: Associations across pregnancy windows. Environ Res. 2026 Mar 01; 292:123587.
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