ReviewEnvironmental research2021
Environmental exposures and sleep outcomes: A review of evidence, potential mechanisms, and implications.
Review in Environmental research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 59 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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59 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 115 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Air pollution and sleep health in middle-aged and older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Sleep medicine reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Investigation of relationship between occupational exposure to aerosol and sleep problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
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- Elevating sleep to a global health priority: The One Sleep Health framework.Cell reports. Medicine · 2026Review
- Disinfection Byproducts, Oxidative Stress, and Sleep Quality among Healthy Chinese Men.Environment & health (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
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- Association between PMFrontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Cognitive-attitudinal factors predict CBT-I enrollment willingness in Chinese sleep clinic patients: a knowledge-attitudes-practices survey.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Associations between gestational polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) serum concentrations and child sleep outcomes from ages 2-8 years.Environmental research · 2025Article
- Impact of PMAnnals of medicine · 2025Article
- Treatable Traits in Pediatric Interstitial Lung Diseases: Bridging the Gap to Tailored Therapeutics.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Individual-Level Exposure to Light at Night and Sleep Health: A Comparison between Real-Time Mobility-Based Measurements and Indoor Residence-Based Measurements.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
- Exposure to light and noise at night, and sleep quality in community-dwelling older adults: a cross-sectional study.European geriatric medicine · 2025Article
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Environmental exposures and poor sleep outcomes are known to have consequential effects on human health. This integrative review first seeks to present and synthesize existing literature investigating the relationship between exposure to various environmental factors and sleep health. We then present potential mechanisms of action as well as implications for policy and future research for each environmental exposure. Broadly, although studies are still emerging, empirical evidence has begun to show a positive association between adverse effects of heavy metal, noise pollution, light pollution, second-hand smoke, and air pollution exposures and various sleep problems. Specifically, these negative sleep outcomes range from subjective sleep manifestations, such as general sleep quality, sleep duration, daytime dysfunction, and daytime sleepiness, as well as objective sleep measures, including difficulties with sleep onset and maintenance, sleep stage or circadian rhythm interference, sleep arousal, REM activity, and sleep disordered breathing. However, the association between light exposure and sleep is less clear. Potential toxicological mechanisms are thought to include the direct effect of various environmental toxicants on the nervous, respiratory, and cardiovascular systems, oxidative stress, and inflammation. Nevertheless, future research is required to tease out the exact pathways of action to explain the associations between each environmental factor and sleep, to inform possible therapies to negate the detrimental effects, and to increase efforts in decreasing exposure to these harmful environmental factors to improve health.
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