Children are at a critical stage of growth and development, with immature organ and system development, and are a vulnerable population to environmental pollution. Exposure to environmental hazards during childhood is an important risk factor for adult diseases, and assessing health risks posed by ...

The pollution situation of antimony (Sb), beryllium (Be), cobalt (Co), and vanadium (V) is poorly understood, although they are widely used in daily life and production processes. Moreover, threshold levels ("soil environmental criteria", SEC) for these pollutants are lacking in China, which...

China was seriously affected by air pollution in the past decade, especially for particulate matter (PM) and emerging ozone pollution recently. In this study, we systematically examined the spatiotemporal variations of six air pollutants and conducted ozone prediction using machine learning (ML)...

Dyslipidemia may be a potential mechanism linking air pollution to adverse cardiovascular outcomes and this may differ among obese and normal-weight populations. However, the joint effect of multiple air pollutants on lipid profiles and the role of each pollutant are still unclear. This panel study ...

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a severe public health problem globally. Previous studies have revealed insufficient and inconsistent associations between air pollutants, meteorological factors and TB cases. Yet few studies have examined the associations between air pollutants, meteorological...

Air pollution and noise are both ubiquitous environmental stressors that pose great threats to public health. Emerging evidence has noticed the combined health risks caused by the coexistence of traffic-related air pollutants and noise in the residential context. However, less is known about how...

Background: Air pollutants are found associated with various health effects in chronic obstructive pulmonary patients. Given the complicate chemical components of air pollutants, it is not clear which components are the main risk factors for these health effects. Objectives Based on the COPD in...

Greenness could theoretically increase the impact of physical activity (PA) and reduce the adverse effects of air pollution on overweight/obesity. However, no evidence systematically compares these two pathways, especially in longitudinal studies of children and adolescent's cohort. Greenness, PA,...

Non-road mobile machinery (NRMM), mainly construction machinery, has a high emission intensity of air pollutants, significantly impacting urban air quality. Most previous estimates of NRMM emissions have employed a top-down approach mainly based on estimates of energy consumption, leading to large...

Understanding the spatial patterns of atmospheric pollutants in urban and suburban areas is important for evaluating their effects on regional air quality, climate, and human health. The analyses of pollutant monitoring data of the China National Environmental Monitoring Center revealed that the...