ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018
A Comparison of the Health Effects of Ambient Particulate Matter Air Pollution from Five Emission Sources.
Review in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Long-term exposure to particulate matter from road traffic and residential heating and mortality: a multi-cohort study in Sweden.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Traffic-Related Emissions Induce Angiotensin II-Dependent Oxidative Stress in the Hippocampus of ApoE-Null Male Mice.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Attribution of Health Hazards to Sources of Air Pollution Based on Networks of Sensors and Emission Inventories.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Urinary Pyrene Carboxylic Acid as a Novel Exposure Biomarker of Woodsmoke.Environmental science & technology letters · 2025Article
- Joint effects of traffic-related air pollution and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy on maternal postpartum depressive and anxiety symptoms.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025Article
- Major and Trace Airborne Elements and Ecological Risk Assessment: Georgia Moss Survey 2019-2023.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effects of air pollution on global health: evidence from the global burden of disease study in the BRICS countries.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2024Article
- A GIS-based approach to determining optimal location for decentralized inner city smart filters: Toward net zero cities.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Application of artificial intelligence in quantifying lung deposition dose of black carbon in people with exposure to ambient combustion particles.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2024Article
- Wood heater smoke and mortality in the Australian Capital Territory: a rapid health impact assessment.The Medical journal of Australia · 2024Article
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- Assessing the impact of aircraft arrival on ambient ultrafine particle number concentrations in near-airport communities in Boston, Massachusetts.Environmental research · 2023Article
- Exposure to local, source-specific ambient air pollution during pregnancy and autism in children: a cohort study from southern Sweden.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Cognitive Development and Prenatal Air Pollution Exposure in the CHAMACOS Cohort.Environmental health perspectives · 2023Article
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Abstract
This article briefly reviews evidence of health effects associated with exposure to particulate matter (PM) air pollution from five common outdoor emission sources: traffic, coal-fired power stations, diesel exhaust, domestic wood combustion heaters, and crustal dust. The principal purpose of this review is to compare the evidence of health effects associated with these different sources with a view to answering the question: Is exposure to PM from some emission sources associated with worse health outcomes than exposure to PM from other sources? Answering this question will help inform development of air pollution regulations and environmental policy that maximises health benefits. Understanding the health effects of exposure to components of PM and source-specific PM are active fields of investigation. However, the different methods that have been used in epidemiological studies, along with the differences in populations, emission sources, and ambient air pollution mixtures between studies, make the comparison of results between studies problematic. While there is some evidence that PM from traffic and coal-fired power station emissions may elicit greater health effects compared to PM from other sources, overall the evidence to date does not indicate a clear ‘hierarchy’ of harmfulness for PM from different emission sources. Further investigations of the health effects of source-specific PM with more advanced approaches to exposure modeling, measurement, and statistics, are required before changing the current public health protection approach of minimising exposure to total PM mass.
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