SynthesisInternational journal of obesity (2005)2018
Impact of ambient air pollution on obesity: a systematic review.
Synthesis in International journal of obesity (2005), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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87 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Ambient air pollution and childhood obesity from infancy to late childhood: An individual participant data meta-analysis of 10 European birth cohorts.Environment international · 2025Pooled it
- The association between air pollution and obesity: an umbrella review of meta-analyses and systematic reviews.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- A Review of Studies Using Air Q Software for Prediction of Air Pollution Health Effects in Iran.Current environmental health reports · 2022Pooled it
- The Association between Childhood Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Leukocyte telomere length and obesity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in genetics · 2022Pooled it
- Exposure to PMInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Associations between the built environment and obesity: an umbrella review.International journal of health geographics · 2021Pooled it
- Traffic-related environmental factors and childhood obesity: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Revisiting 'environmental effects': Directions for multidisciplinary investigations of air quality and psychopathology.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Article
- The Role of the Oral Microbiome in Circulating Metabolic Biomarkers and the Influence of Air Pollution.Oral diseases · 2026Article
- Long-term Air Pollution and Overall and Regional Body Composition in Older Adults With Overweight or Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome.Diabetes care · 2026Article
- Temporal Trends of Colorectal Cancer Burden in India: A Nationwide and State-Level Analysis.Cancer medicine · 2026Article
- PMEnvironment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Joint impacts of air pollution and healthy lifestyles on kidney function decline: insights from a nationwide cohort study.Renal failure · 2025Article
- Health, wealth, and nature in harmony? a method of moments quantile regression approach to the obesity-income-environment trinity in the G7 panel.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2025Article
- Climate Change, Air Pollution and the Global Obesity Syndemic: a Review of Current Evidence.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Association of air pollutions and systemic inflammation with early cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome among middle-aged and elderly adults: a cross-sectional study from CHARLS.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Weight Trajectories Among Youths Following Residential Relocation.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Prolonged exposure to polluted air and risk of overweight and central obesity in Chinese children and adolescents.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Associations among green spaces, ambient temperature, air pollution, and body mass index: a nationwide study in South Korea from 2008 to 2021.BMC public health · 2025Article
27 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesOver 80% of the global populations living in urban areas are exposed to air quality levels that exceed the World Health Organization limits. Air pollution may lead to unhealthy body weight through metabolic dysfunction, chronic disease onset, and disruption of regular physical activity. SUBJECTS/
methodsA literature search was conducted in the PubMed and Web of Science for peer-reviewed articles published until September 2017 that assessed the relationship between air pollution and body weight status. A standardized data extraction form was used to collect methodological and outcome variables from each eligible study.
resultsSixteen studies met the selection criteria and were included in the review. They were conducted in seven countries, including the US (n = 9), China (n = 2), Canada (n = 1), Italy (n = 1), The Netherlands (n = 1), Serbia (n = 1), and South Korea (n = 1). Half of them adopted a longitudinal study design, and the rest adopted a cross-sectional study design. Commonly examined air pollutants included PM, NO
conclusionsConcurrent evidence regarding the impact of air pollution on body weight status remains mixed. Future studies should assess the impact of severe air pollution on obesity in developing countries, focus on a homogenous population subgroup, and elucidate the biomedical and psychosocial pathways linking air pollution to body weight.
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