 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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| 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 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2013 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2014 | 5 | 2 | 7 | | 2015 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2016 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2017 | 8 | 7 | 15 | | 2018 | 9 | 2 | 11 | | 2019 | 5 | 4 | 9 | | 2020 | 15 | 3 | 18 | | 2021 | 17 | 2 | 19 | | 2022 | 15 | 0 | 15 | | 2023 | 19 | 0 | 19 | | 2024 | 19 | 7 | 26 | | 2025 | 17 | 6 | 23 | | 2026 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Air Pollution" by people in Profiles.
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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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Butler-Dawson J, Jaramillo D, Krisher L, Hernandez KV, Calvimontes L, Erlandson G, Seidel J, Castro C, Brindley S, Li Y, Dally M, James KA, Johnson RJ, Pilloni D, Cruz A, Smith N, Johnson E, Schaeffer JW, Adgate JL, Newman LS. Evaluating the effects of heat strain and air pollution on kidney health. Environ Int. 2026 Jan; 207:110042.
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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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Vogli M, Jeong A, Yu Z, Vonk JM, Ibi D, Kronberg J, Gregor P, Maier L, Leskien M, Cirach M, Dadvand P, Mike? O, Gruzieva O, Gehring U, Wolf K, Waldenberger M, Imboden M, Cupr P, de Hoogh K, Koppelman GH, Melén E, Pickford R, Thiering E, Standl M, Klánová J, Vlaanderen J, Vermeulen R, Probst-Hensch N, Peters A. The impact of environmental exposures on DNA methylation in the EXPANSE project. EBioMedicine. 2026 Jan; 123:106084.
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Huang SP, Su CC, Lin CY, Nethery R, Josey K, Bates B, Robinson D, Gandhi P, Rua M, Parthasarathi A, Setoguchi S, Kao Yang YH. Exposure-Response to High PM2.5 Levels for Cardiovascular Events in High-Risk Older Adults in Taiwan. J Am Heart Assoc. 2025 Dec 16; 14(24):e043306.
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Ni W, Bozack AK, Rifas-Shiman SL, Oken E, Hivert MF, Nassikas NJ, Sordillo J, Perng W, Gold DR, Cardenas A, Rice MB. Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and epigenetic age acceleration in children. Am J Epidemiol. 2025 Dec 02; 194(12):3433-3440.
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Cowell W, Hsu HL, Just AC, Kloog I, Coull BA, Wilson A, Hipwell AE, Karagas MR, Gilliland FD, Padula AM, Carroll KN, Kerver JM, Ghassabian A, Camargo CA, Dabelea D, Koinis-Mitchell D, D'Sa V, Abul MH, Braun JM, Croen LA, Hartert T, Shiroshita A, Peacock JL, Neiderhiser JM, Leve LD, Ganiban JM, Litonjua AA, McEvoy CT, Haag MB, Schmidt RJ, Goodrich AJ, Lyall K, Volk HE, O'Connor TG, Rich DQ, Porucznik CA, Wright RJ. Air Pollution Exposure and Birth Weight in the ECHO Cohort. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Dec 01; 8(12):e2551459.
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Collett JL, Pan D, McKenzie L, Zimmerle D, Zhang W, Zhou Y, Kim S, Ku IT, Sullivan A, Pierce J, Allshouse W, Levine S, Duggan GP, Rimelman E. Measuring and Modeling Air Pollution and Noise Exposure Near Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in Colorado. Res Rep Health Eff Inst. 2025 12; (232):1-62.
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Pulczinski J, Zhang S, Breen M, Breen M, Isakov V, Schneider A, Rappold A, Diaz-Sanchez D, Devlin R, Samet J, Tong H. Does personalization in exposure assessment change ambient air pollution exposure-response relationships? A panel study. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2025 Nov 15; 307:119422.
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Yao Y, Wolf K, Breitner S, Zhang S, Waldenberger M, Winkelmann J, Schneider A, Peters A. Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution is associated with epigenetic age acceleration. Environ Res. 2026 Jan 01; 288(Pt 2):123284.
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