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Air pollution and environmental exposures

294 studies in this group. A computer grouped them by what their titles and summaries are about, not by a hand-made list. The name describes most of the group, not every study in it.

Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0). Tap a score to see what makes it up.

Highest usefulness score first. Studies without a score come last.

  1. Neurobehavioral effects of long-term exposure to pesticides: results from the 4-year follow-up of the PHYTONER Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 48 out of 100. Occupational and Environmental Medicine 2010-11-22 Risk factors

    614 subjects were available for investigation at follow-up.

  2. Virus exposure and neurodegenerative disease risk across national biobanks

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neuron 2023-01-19 Long-term cohort studies

    With recent findings connecting the Epstein-Barr virus to an increased risk of multiple sclerosis and growing concerns regarding the neurological impact of the coronavirus pandemic, we examined potential links between viral exposures and neurodegenerative disease risk.

  3. Psychological and Emotional Effects of Digital Technology on Children in COVID-19 Pandemic

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Brain sciences 2021-08-25 Cognitive tests and assessment

    COVID-19 has caused obstacles in continuing normal life almost everywhere in the world by causing the implementation of social distancing and eventually imposing the lockdown.

  4. Mortality, morbidity, and risk factors in China and its provinces, 1990-2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2019-06-24 Risk factors

    We compared the observed results with expected values estimated based on the Socio-demographic Index (SDI).

  5. Effect of long-term exposure to air pollution on anxiety and depression in adults: A cross-sectional study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. International journal of hygiene and environmental health 2017-07-03 Risk factors

    Our study shows that increasing long-term exposure to air pollution may increase the odds of depression and the use of antidepressants and benzodiazepines.

  6. Long-term air pollution exposure is associated with neuroinflammation, an altered innate immune response, disruption of the blood-brain barrier, ultrafine particulate deposition, and accumulation of amyloid beta-42 and alpha-synuclein in children and young adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Toxicologic pathology 2008-02-01 Genetics

    Air pollution is a serious environmental problem.

  7. Follow-up study of risk factors in progressive supranuclear palsy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 47 out of 100. Neurology 1996-07-01 Risk factors

    The cause of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) is not known and has been little studied.

  8. Associations of ambient air pollution exposure and lifestyle factors with incident dementia in the elderly: A prospective study in the UK Biobank

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Environment international 2024-07-04 Risk factors

    During a 12-year period of follow-up, 4,389 incidents of all-cause dementia were identified.

  9. Air pollution exposure and mortality from neurodegenerative diseases in the Netherlands: A population-based cohort study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Environmental research 2024-07-02 Risk factors

    We had a follow-up of 71 million person-years.

  10. Air pollution and traffic noise interact to affect cognitive health in older Mexican Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Environment international 2023-02-10 Risk factors

    In total, 104 incident dementia and 159 incident dementia/CIND cases were identified during the 10 years of follow-up.

  11. Long-Term Exposure to PM10 and in vivo Alzheimer's Disease Pathologies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 46 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Risk factors

    In this non-demented study population, of which 62% were cognitively normal and 38% were in mild cognitive impairment state, exposure to the highest tertile of PM10mean was associated with increased risk of amyloid-β (Aβ) positivity (odds ratio 2.19, 95% confidence interval 1.13 to 4.26) even after controlling all potential confounders.

  12. Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases, frontotemporal lobar degeneration and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis overlapping neuropathology start in the first two decades of life in pollution exposed urbanites and brain ultrafine particulate matter and industrial nanoparticles, including Fe, Ti, Al, V, Ni, Hg, Co, Cu, Zn, Ag, Pt, Ce, La, Pr and W are key players. Metropolitan Mexico City health crisis is in progress

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Frontiers in human neuroscience 2024-01-12 Risk factors

    The neuropathological hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD), and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are present in urban children exposed to fine particulate matter (PM2.5), combustion and friction ultrafine PM (UFPM), and industrial nanoparticles (NPs).

  13. Air pollution and dementia in older adults in the Ginkgo Evaluation of Memory Study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association 2022-04-18 Risk factors

    An interquartile range increase in 20-year PM2.5 was associated with a 20% higher risk of dementia (95% confidence interval [CI]: 5%, 37%) and an increased risk of mixed VaD/AD but not AD alone.

  14. Effects of air pollution on dementia over Europe for present and future climate change scenarios

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Environmental research 2021-09-13 Risk factors

    The scientific literature is scarce when referring to the influence of atmospheric pollutants on neurodegenerative diseases for present and future climate change scenarios.

  15. PM2.5 and hospital admissions among Medicare enrollees with chronic debilitating brain disorders

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. The Science of the total environment 2020-10-03 Risk factors

    We observed significant increases in all-cause hospital admissions (2.53% in PD and 2.49% in AD/dementia) attributable to high PM2.5 exposure.

  16. Combustion- and friction-derived magnetic air pollution nanoparticles in human hearts

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Environmental research 2019-06-29 Risk factors

    Air pollution is a risk factor for cardiovascular and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

  17. Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980-2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2016-10-01 Risk factors

    These results informed an in-depth investigation of observed and expected mortality patterns based on sociodemographic measures.

  18. Global, regional, and national age-sex specific all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 240 causes of death, 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 45 out of 100. Lancet (London, England) 2014-12-18 Risk factors

    We used the results to assess whether there is epidemiological convergence across countries.

  19. PM2.5 exposure exacerbates Alzheimer's disease pathology through lysosomal dysfunction in APP/PS1 mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Ecotoxicology and environmental safety 2025-08-26 Risk factors

    Ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a key environmental risk factor closely associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD), although its specific molecular mechanisms remain incompletely elucidated.

  20. Microglia-derived extracellular vesicles mediate fine particulate matter-induced Alzheimer's disease-like behaviors through the miR-34a-5p/DUSP10/p-p38 MAPK pathway

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Journal of hazardous materials 2025-06-06 Risk factors

    Fine particulate matter (PM2.5), a major component of air pollution, poses significant global health risks.

  21. Air Pollution as an Environmental Risk Factor for Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Medical research archives 2024-10-31 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease and related dementias are a leading cause of morbidity in our aging populations.

  22. PM2.5 is linked to Alzheimer's syndrome and delirium: a mendelian randomization analysis

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. International journal of clinical and experimental pathology 2024-09-15 Risk factors

    The odds ratio (OR) for Alzheimer's disease was 0.996 with a p-value of 0.443 using the inverse variance weighted algorithm, and the OR associated with the outcome variable of delirium was 0.393 with a p-value of 0.343.

  23. Impact of Air Pollution on Neurological and Psychiatric Health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Archives of medical research 2024-08-06 Risk factors

    Air pollution is a critical global issue with extensive implications beyond respiratory health, significantly affecting neurological and psychiatric disorders.

  24. PM2.5 triggers tau aggregation in a mouse model of tauopathy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. JCI insight 2024-07-22 Risk factors

    The aggregation and prion-like propagation of tau are the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other tauopathies.

  25. PAHs as environmental pollutants and their neurotoxic effects

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Toxicology & pharmacology : CBP 2024-07-06 Risk factors

    Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are widely present in incompletely combusted air particulate matter <2.5 μm (PM2.5), tobacco and other organic materials, can enter the human body through various routes and are a class of environmental pollutants with neurotoxic effects.

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