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  1. Global Public Health Implications of Traffic Related Air Pollution: Systematic Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Environmental health insights 2024-08-26 Risk factors

    In this study, 1 282 032 participants ranging from 19 to 452 735 were included in 30 articles published from 2010 to 2022.

  2. Neurodegenerative hospital admissions and long-term exposure to ambient fine particle air pollution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Annals of epidemiology 2020-09-30 Risk factors

    Increases in ambient PM2.5 concentrations were not consistently associated with increased hospital admissions rates.

  3. Short-term associations between ambient air pollution and acute atrial fibrillation episodes

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 54 out of 100. Environment international 2020-05-08 Risk factors

    Among 218 participants with 469 AF episodes we observed higher odds of AF following higher 24-hour mean levels of PM10 and O3, reaching statistical significance for PM10 levels averaged over the previous 12-24-hours [OR 1.10 (95%CI 1.01-1.19) per IQR of PM10 (7.8 µg/m3)].

  4. Heavy Metals Exposure and Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020-01-01 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease and related dementias lack effective treatment or cures and are major public health challenges.

  5. Attributable risk of hospital admissions for overall and specific mental disorders due to particulate matter pollution: A time-series study in Chengdu, China

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Environmental research 2018-12-12 Risk factors

    The associations of particulate matter (PM) pollution with the morbidity of overall and subtypes of mental disorders (MDs), as well as the corresponding morbidity burden, remain understudied, especially in developing countries.

  6. Environment and Neurodegenerative Diseases: An Update on miRNA Role

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. MicroRNA (Shariqah, United Arab Emirates) 2017-12-01 Risk factors

    A discussion with theoretical and possible future research directions is provided and it is clear that the need is not only of longitudinal population studies and of better knowledge of epigenetics markers but, especially, of environmental policy interventions based on the green economy.

  7. Short-term association between environmental factors and hospital admissions due to dementia in Madrid

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Environmental research 2016-10-27 Risk factors

    During the study period, there were 1175 DDE hospital admissions.

  8. Agent Orange exposure and disease prevalence in Korean Vietnam veterans: the Korean veterans health study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Environmental research 2014-06-04 Digital health tools

    Between 1961 and 1971, military herbicides were used by the United States and allied forces for military purposes.

  9. Risk Factors in Coronary Heart Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 53 out of 100. Annals of Internal Medicine 1964-11-01 Drug development

    The factors associated with excess risk that have been identified are: serum cholesterol level, blood pressure, cigarette smoking, vital capacity,...References1.

  10. Atmospheric Pollutants, Cardiometabolic Disorders, and Dementia in Trajectory Analysis: A 13-Year Longitudinal Cohort Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Journal of the American Heart Association 2025-05-02 Risk factors

    Over 13 years, 65 336 patients with FCMD were identified, with 2584 developing dementia and 10 664 dying.

  11. Association between air pollution and cerebrospinal fluid alpha-synuclein in urban elders: the CABLE study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2024-08-30 Risk factors

    We found a significant correlation of CSF α-syn level with PM2.5 in urban participants.

  12. Impacts of Climate Change and Air Pollution on Neurologic Health, Disease, and Practice: A Scoping Review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. Neurology 2022-11-16 Risk factors

    Temperature extremes and variability both associated with stroke incidence and severity, migraine headaches, hospitalization in patients with dementia, and multiple sclerosis exacerbations.

  13. Increased risk of dementia in patients exposed to nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide: a population-based retrospective cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. PloS one 2014-08-12 Risk factors

    The results of this large retrospective, population-based study indicate that exposure to NO2 and CO is associated with an increased risk of dementia in the Taiwanese population.

  14. Neurodegenerative diseases and exposure to pesticides in the elderly

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 52 out of 100. American journal of epidemiology 2003-03-01 Risk factors

    The authors investigated the hypothesis that exposure to pesticides could be related to central nervous system disorders in a prospective cohort study of 1,507 French elderly (1992-1998).

  15. The Association Between Exposure to Air Pollution and Dementia Incidence: The Modifying Effect of Smoking

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences 2023-12-01 Risk factors

    During a median 11.7 years follow-up, 5 905 incident cases of all-cause dementia were identified.

  16. Long-term exposure to low-level air pollution, genetic susceptibility and risk of dementia

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. International journal of epidemiology 2023-06-06 Risk factors

    The adjusted hazard ratio (HR) of dementia for a 5-μg/m3 increase in NO2 was 1.09 (95% CI, 1.05-1.14); the adjusted HR of dementia for a 1-μg/m3 increase in PM2.5 was 1.10 (1.04-1.17).

  17. A national cohort study (2000-2018) of long-term air pollution exposure and incident dementia in older adults in the United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Nature communications 2021-11-19 Risk factors

    Air pollution may increase risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) in the U.S., but the extent of this relationship is unclear.

  18. Neuroimaging and biomarker evidence of neurodegeneration in asthma

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology 2021-09-15 Biomarkers

    Asthma participants had widespread and large-magnitude differences in several dMRI metrics, which were indicative of neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration, and which were robustly associated with GFAP and, to a lesser extent, NfL.

  19. The Impact of Air Pollution on Neurodegenerative Diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Therapeutic drug monitoring 2021-02-01 Risk factors

    PM2.5 can enter the central nervous system through 2 main pathways, the blood-brain barrier and olfactory neurons.

  20. Environmental exposure to phthalates and dementia with Lewy bodies: contribution of metabolomics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2020-07-07 Risk factors

    Among the compounds detected in greater abundance in the CSF of patients with DLB compared with patients with AD, only one had a xenobiotic profile potentially related to the pathophysiology of DLB.

  21. Blood cadmium levels and Alzheimer's disease mortality risk in older US adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 50 out of 100. Environmental health : a global access science source 2016-06-14 Risk factors

    We observed a significant association between blood cadmium levels and AD mortality among older adults in the US.

  22. Allergic Diseases and Risk of Incident Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Annals of neurology 2022-10-17 Digital health tools

    Asthma, allergic rhinitis, and atopic dermatitis were significantly associated with increased risk of all-cause dementia and subtypes, with dose-effect relationships with the severity of allergic diseases.

  23. Associations between air pollution and biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease in cognitively unimpaired individuals

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Environment international 2021-09-16 Biomarkers

    In a population of cognitively unimpaired adults with increased risk of AD, long-term exposure to air pollution was associated with higher levels in biomarkers of AD pathology.

  24. Alzheimer's disease (AD), non-AD dementia, and Parkinson's disease (PD) are increasingly common in older adults, yet all risk factors for their onset are not fully understood.

  25. Association between environmental exposure to pesticides and neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Toxicology and applied pharmacology 2011-05-13 Risk factors

    Preliminary studies have shown associations between chronic pesticide exposure in occupational settings and neurological disorders.

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