SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
The Association between Childhood Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Obesity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Cardiovascular Prevention in Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults. A Call-to-Action of the Italian Societies of Pediatrics (SIP), Hypertension (SIIA), Study of Atherosclerosis (SISA), and Cardiovascular Prevention (SIPREC).High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2026Guideline
- 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
- Environmental Determinants of Pediatric Obesity: An Epidemiological Review.Epidemiologia (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Early-Life Air Pollution Exposure Is Associated with the Infant Gut Microbiome and Fecal Metabolome in the First Two Years of Life.Research report (Health Effects Institute) · 2026Article
- Air pollution promotes the onset and progression of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome: a nationwide prospective cohort study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Climate Change, Air Pollution and the Global Obesity Syndemic: a Review of Current Evidence.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- The relationship between early life course air pollution exposure and general health in adolescence in the United Kingdom.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Metabolic Syndrome and Its Components.Journal of obesity & metabolic syndrome · 2025Review
- Childhood Exposure to Air Pollution, Body Mass Index Trajectories, and Insulin Resistance Among Young Adults.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- The potential effect modifying role of nutrition, physical activity, and body mass index on the association between air pollution and adverse birth and early-life health outcomes: a scoping review.Environmental research communications · 2025Article
- Hemoglobin as a mediator between air pollution and growth outcomes in children under 60 months: the moderating role of nutritional supplementation.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Prenatal exposure to particulates and anthropometry through 9 years of age in a birth cohort.Pediatric obesity · 2025Article
- Offspring's exposome: a narrative review on the influence of early-life factors on childhood obesity risk.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Going from Primary to Primordial Prevention: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?Current cardiology reports · 2024Review
- The Built Environment and Childhood Obesity.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2024Review
- Examining the Link between Air Quality (PM, SOJournal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- The Health-Related and Learning Performance Effects of Air Pollution and Other Urban-Related Environmental Factors on School-Age Children and Adolescents-A Scoping Review of Systematic Reviews.Current environmental health reports · 2024Article
- Understanding the Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health Effects of Air Pollution in the Context of Cumulative Exposomic Impacts.Circulation research · 2024Review
- Air pollution exposure and cardiometabolic risk.The lancet. Diabetes & endocrinology · 2024Review
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Abstract
Obesity has become a worldwide epidemic; 340 million of children and adolescents were overweight or obese in 2016, and this number continues to grow at a rapid rate. Epidemiological research has suggested that air pollution affects childhood obesity and weight status, but the current evidence remains inconsistent. Therefore, the aim of this meta-analysis was to estimate the effects of childhood exposure to air pollutants on weight. A total of four databases (PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and Cochrane Library) were searched for publications up to December 31, 2021, and finally 15 studies met the inclusion criteria for meta-analysis. Merged odds ratios (ORs), coefficients (β), and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) that were related to air pollutants were estimated using a random-effects model. The meta-analysis indicated that air pollutants were correlated with childhood obesity and weight gain. For obesity, the association was considerable for PM
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