ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023
Incident dementia and long-term exposure to constituents of fine particle air pollution: A national cohort study in the United States.
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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 80 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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80 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 129 citations in OpenAlex.
- Long-term exposure to ambient particulate matter and its association with Alzheimer's disease: influencing factors and a systematic review with meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2026Pooled it
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- Aging in a highly polluted world: challenges and solutions to prevent Alzheimer's disease.Archives of toxicology · 2026Review
- The association between PMEnvironmental research · 2026Article
- Assessing Black Carbon and Iron Oxide Aerosols: A Comparative Study between Urban and Rural Environments in the Southeastern U.S.ACS ES&T air · 2026Article
- Long-term exposure to wildfire smoke particulate matter and incident stroke: a US nationwide study.European heart journal · 2026Article
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- The landscape of dementia in India: Prevalence, risk factors, and opportunities ahead.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Review
- Air Pollution and Alzheimer's Disease: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Review
- A critical review of potential modifiers of air pollutant associations with dementia and related outcomes.Neurotoxicology · 2026Review
- PM2.5 toxin benzo[a]pyrene induces life-limiting inflammation and oxidative stress in the airway by up-regulation of TRPC6 and inactivation of β2AR/CFTR signaling.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Integrating contextual determinants and polygenic risk to examine dementia and late-life cognition in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- The association between midlife neighbourhood walkability and Alzheimer's disease in women: a prospective nested case-control study.Age and ageing · 2026Article
- Racial and ethnic differences in the impact of air pollution on the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in the Multiethnic Cohort Study.Environment international · 2026Article
- The sex-specific association between long-term PM2.5 exposure and incident dementia in community-dwelling older adults in Australia.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- The role of comorbidities in the associations between air pollution and Alzheimer's disease: A national cohort study in the American Medicare population.PLoS medicine · 2026Article
- Spatial variation in socio-economic vulnerability to Influenza-like Infection for the US population.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
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21 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
Liuhua ShiGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.ORCID 0000-0001-8165-4644
Qiao ZhuGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.ORCID 0000-0001-6439-2160
Yifan WangGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Hua HaoGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Haisu ZhangGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Joel SchwartzDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0001-6168-378X
Heresh AminiDepartment of Public Health, Section of Environmental Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 1014.
Aaron van DonkelaarDepartment of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130.ORCID 0000-0002-2998-8521
Randall V MartinDepartment of Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering, Washington University at St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130.ORCID 0000-0003-2632-8402
Kyle SteenlandGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Jeremy A SarnatGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.ORCID 0000-0001-8733-8749
W Michael CaudleGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Tszshan MaGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Haomin LiGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.ORCID 0000-0003-3921-085X
Howard H ChangDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.
Jeremiah Z LiuDepartment of Biostatistics, Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115.ORCID 0000-0002-7410-4502
Thomas WingoDepartment of Neurology and Human Genetics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.ORCID 0000-0002-7679-6282
Xiaobo MaoDepartment of Neurology, Institute for Cell Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.ORCID 0000-0001-6587-556X
Armistead G RussellSchool of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30318.ORCID 0000-0003-2027-8870
Rodney J WeberSchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30318.ORCID 0000-0003-0765-8035
Pengfei LiuSchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30318.
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Funding
Translational Research Support CoreP30ES000002 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI JAIME ELIZABETH HART · 1985 to 2026
$44.6MThe Emory Alzheimer's Disease CenterP50AG025688 · NIA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI WINGO, THOMAS SPURGEON · 2005 to 2019
$25.7MPilot Project ProgramP30ES019776 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI William Michael Caudle · 2013 to 2026
$22.6MAir Pollution and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias: A National StudyR01AG074357 · NIA · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI STEENLAND, NELSON K · 2021 to 2025
$3.4MIdentifying low dose measurement error corrected effects of multiple pollutants using causal modelingR01ES032418 · NIEHS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY D/B/A HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI SCHWARTZ, JOEL D · 2021 to 2024
$1.7MClimate Penalty: Climate-driven Increases in Ozone and PM2.5 Levels and MortalityR21ES032606 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, HOWARD H · 2021 to 2022
$456kNIA NIH HHS P50 AG025688NIA NIH HHS R01 AG074357NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES000002NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES019776NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES032418NIEHS NIH HHS R21 ES032606
Abstract
Growing evidence suggests that fine particulate matter (PM
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