ReviewJournal of thoracic disease2016
Air pollution and chronic airway diseases: what should people know and do?
Review in Journal of thoracic disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 153 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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153 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 436 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between air pollution and allergic upper respiratory diseases: a meta-analysis.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025Pooled it
- The impact of poor air quality on hospital attendance of multimorbid patients.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- The Relationship Between Perceived Uncontrollable Mortality Risk and Health Effort: Replication, Secondary Analysis, and Mini Meta-analysis.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2024Pooled it
- Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution and Ischemic Stroke: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Neurology · 2023Pooled it
- Prevalence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and chronic bronchitis in eight countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2022Pooled it
- Individual-level interventions to reduce personal exposure to outdoor air pollution and their effects on people with long-term respiratory conditions.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Algae-Derived Anti-Inflammatory Compounds against Particulate Matters-Induced Respiratory Diseases: A Systematic Review.Marine drugs · 2021Pooled it
- Effect of outdoor air pollution on asthma exacerbations in children and adults: Systematic review and multilevel meta-analysis.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- Piloting co-developed behaviour change interventions to reduce exposure to air pollution and improve self-reported asthma-related health.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025Trial
- Association between short-term exposure to air pollution and COVID-19: a case-crossover cohort study.BMJ open respiratory research · 2026Article
- Strategic Reform for the Non-Communicable Disease Crisis in Bangladesh: A Narrative Review of Policy Drivers and Systemic Solutions.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Establishing the PMThe Journal of allergy and clinical immunology · 2026Article
- National, Subnational, and Risk-Attributed Burden of Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Iran (1990-2021): A Longitudinal Clustering Analysis of Global Burden of Disease 2021 Data.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Ensemble learning for air quality index prediction: integrating gradient boosting, XGBoost, and stacking with SHAP-based interpretability.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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- Association between multimorbidity and disability among elderly with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in Shanghai, China: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- The Causal Link Between Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases: Evidence from Granger Causality Test.Thoracic research and practice · 2025Article
- Modifying effects of PMScientific reports · 2025Article
- Air pollution and alveolar health.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025Review
93 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
The health effects of air pollution remain a public health concern worldwide. Exposure to air pollution has many substantial adverse effects on human health. Globally, seven million deaths were attributable to the joint effects of household and ambient air pollution. Subjects with chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are especially vulnerable to the detrimental effects of air pollutants. Air pollution can induce the acute exacerbation of COPD and onset of asthma, increase the respiratory morbidity and mortality. The health effects of air pollution depend on the components and sources of pollutants, which varied with countries, seasons, and times. Combustion of solid fuels is a major source of air pollutants in developing countries. To reduce the detrimental effects of air pollution, people especially those with COPD or asthma should be aware of the air quality and take extra measures such as reducing the time outdoor and wearing masks when necessary. For reducing the air pollutants indoor, people should use clean fuels and improve the stoves so as to burn fuel more efficiently and vent emissions to the outside. Air cleaners that can improve the air quality efficiently are recommended.
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