SynthesisInternational journal of biometeorology2013
Desert dust impacts on human health: an alarming worldwide reality and a need for studies in West Africa.
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- Exploring the Relationship between Wind Patterns and Hospital Admissions Due to Respiratory Symptoms in Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The Association of Desert Dust with the Risk of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Subjects of a Younger Age.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Respirable Metals, Bacteria, and Fungi during a Saharan-Sahelian Dust Event in Houston, Texas.Environmental science & technology · 2023Article
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- Saharan Dust and Childhood Respiratory Symptoms in Benin.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- The Role of Meteorological Variables and Aerosols in the Transmission of COVID-19 During Harmattan Season.GeoHealth · 2022Article
- Forgotten but not gone: Particulate matter as contaminations of mucosal systems.Biophysics reviews · 2021Review
- Impact of Desert Dust Events on the Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Investigating the effects of dust storms on morbidity and mortality due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases: A systematic review.Journal of education and health promotion · 2021Review
- Modeling Desert Dust Exposures in Epidemiologic Short-term Health Effects Studies.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2020Article
- Early warning climate indices for malaria and meningitis in tropical ecological zones.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Relationship between temporal anomalies in PMHeliyon · 2020Article
- Health Effects of Asian Dust: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Environmental health perspectives · 2020Article
- The effect of dust storm particles on single human lung cancer cells.Environmental research · 2020Article
- Saharan Dust Events in the Dust Belt -Canary Islands- and the Observed Association with in-Hospital Mortality of Patients with Heart Failure.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
High desert dust concentrations raise concerns about adverse health effects on human populations. Based on a systematic literature review, this paper aims to learn more about the relationship between desert dust and human health in the world and to analyse the place of West Africa as a study area of interest. Papers focussing on the potential relationship between dust and health and showing quantitative analyses, published between January 1999 and September 2011, were identified using the ISI Web of Knowledge database (N = 50). A number of adverse health effects, including respiratory, cardiovascular and cardiopulmonary diseases, are associated with dust. This survey highlights obvious dust impacts on human health independently of the study area, health outcomes and method. Moreover, it reveals an imbalance between the areas most exposed to dust and the areas most studied in terms of health effects. None of these studies has been conducted in West Africa, despite the proximity of the Sahara, which produces about half of the yearly global mineral dust. In view of the alarming results in many parts of the world (Asia, Europe, America), this paper concludes by stressing the importance of carrying out impact studies of Saharan dust in West Africa, where dust events are more frequent and intense than anywhere else.
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