ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2021
Impact of Desert Dust Events on the Cardiovascular Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
- Re-Evaluating Springtime as Southern Arizona's Dust Season.GeoHealth · 2026Article
- Dust air pollution and hospital visits for respiratory, cardiovascular, and eye diseases in Eastern Iran.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exposure to respirable desert dust entering indoors prompts quick oxidative-stress and inflammatory responses in the airways of chronic heart failure patients.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Dark Triad of Particulate Matter, Oxidative Stress and Coronary Artery Disease: What About the Antioxidant Therapeutic Potential.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Times Matter, the Impact of Convective Dust Events on Air Quality in the Greater Phoenix Area, Arizona.GeoHealth · 2025Article
- Mapping Climate-Related Hazards along Migration Routes: A Mixed Methods Study of Hypertensive Syrian and Iraqi Refugees Resettled in San Diego, California.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- The Association of Desert Dust with the Risk of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Subjects of a Younger Age.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- A review of pulmonary neutrophilia and insights into the key role of neutrophils in particle-induced pathogenesis in the lung from animal studies of lunar dusts and other poorly soluble dust particles.Critical reviews in toxicology · 2023Review
- Rationale and Design of the Impact of Air Pollution Due to DESERT Dust in Patients with HEART Failure (DESERT HEART).Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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- [Environment and cardiovascular health: causes, consequences and opportunities in prevention and treatment].Revista espanola de cardiologia · 2022Article
- Environment and cardiovascular health: causes, consequences and opportunities in prevention and treatment.Revista espanola de cardiologia (English ed.) · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundWhether or not inhalation of airborne desert dust has adverse health effects is unknown. The present study, based on a systematic review and meta-analysis, was carried out to assess the influence desert dust on cardiovascular mortality, acute coronary syndrome, and heart failure.
methodsA systematic search was made in PubMed and Embase databases for studies published before March 2020. Studies based on daily measurements of desert dust were identified. The meta-analysis evaluated the impact of desert dust on cardiovascular events the same day (lag 0) of the exposure and during several days after the exposure (lags 1 to 5). The combined impact of several days of exposure was also evaluated. The incidence rate ratio (IRR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) was calculated using the inverse variance random effects method.
resultsOf the 589 identified titles, a total of 15 studies were selected. The impact of desert dust on the incidence of cardiovascular mortality was statistically significant (IRR = 1.018 (95%CI 1.008-1.027);
conclusionsThe inhalation to desert dust results in a 2% increase (for every 10 µg/m
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