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  1. Effects of air pollution on human health and practical measures for prevention in Iran

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of research in medical sciences : the official journal of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences 2016-09-01 Risk factors

    Air pollution is a major concern of new civilized world, which has a serious toxicological impact on human health and the environment.

  2. Particulate Air Pollution and Fasting Blood Glucose in Nondiabetic Individuals: Associations and Epigenetic Mediation in the Normative Aging Study, 2000-2011

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Environmental health perspectives 2016-05-26 Risk factors

    Among nondiabetics, short- and medium-term PM2.5 were associated with higher FBG.

  3. Noise induced hearing loss impairs spatial learning/memory and hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Scientific reports 2016-02-04 Risk factors

    Hearing loss has been associated with cognitive decline in the elderly and is considered to be an independent risk factor for dementia.

  4. Olfactory deposition of inhaled nanoparticles in humans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Inhalation toxicology 2015-07-21 Risk factors

    In humans, olfactory dose of inhaled nanoparticles is highest for 1-2 nm particles with ∼1% of inhaled particles depositing in the olfactory region.

  5. Long-term PM2.5 Exposure and Neurological Hospital Admissions in the Northeastern United States

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Environmental health perspectives 2015-05-15 Risk factors

    We found strong evidence of association for all three outcomes.

  6. Environmental pollutants as risk factors for neurodegenerative disorders: Alzheimer and Parkinson diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in cellular neuroscience 2015-04-10 Risk factors

    Neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer (AD) and Parkinson (PD) have attracted attention in last decades due to their high incidence worldwide.

  7. Role of environmental contaminants in the etiology of Alzheimer's disease: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2015-01-01 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's dis ease (AD) is a leading cause of mortality in the developed world with 70% risk attributable to genetics.

  8. CDC National Health Report: leading causes of morbidity and mortality and associated behavioral risk and protective factors--United States, 2005-2013

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. MMWR supplements 2014-10-01 Prevention trials

    The findings in this report indicate that progress has been steady but slow for many of the priority health issues in the United States.

  9. The influences of age on olfaction: a review

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Frontiers in psychology 2014-02-07 Prevention and risk

    Decreased olfactory function is very common in the older population, being present in over half of those between the ages of 65 and 80 years and in over three quarters of those over the age of 80 years.

  10. Early Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease pathology in urban children: Friend versus Foe responses--it is time to face the evidence

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. BioMed research international 2013-02-07 Risk factors

    Chronic exposure to particulate matter air pollution is known to cause inflammation leading to respiratory- and cardiovascular-related sickness and death.

  11. Rapid doubling of Alzheimer's amyloid-β40 and 42 levels in brains of mice exposed to a nickel nanoparticle model of air pollution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. F1000Research 2012-12-21 Biomarkers

    These effects on elevation of brain Aβ exceed those associated with trisomy 21, a known risk for early onset AD pathology, raising the possibility that clinical importance might be attached.

  12. Alzheimer's disease and environmental exposure to lead: the epidemiologic evidence and potential role of epigenetics

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Current Alzheimer research 2012-06-01 Risk factors

    Several lines of evidence indicate that the etiology of late-onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD) is complex, with significant contributions from both genes and environmental factors.

  13. Air pollution, oxidative stress, and Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of environmental and public health 2012-03-15 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia affecting millions of people worldwide and will continue to affect millions more with population aging on the rise.

  14. The adverse effects of air pollution on the nervous system

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of toxicology 2012-02-19 Risk factors

    Exposure to ambient air pollution is a serious and common public health concern associated with growing morbidity and mortality worldwide.

  15. Air pollution & the brain: Subchronic diesel exhaust exposure causes neuroinflammation and elevates early markers of neurodegenerative disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Journal of neuroinflammation 2011-08-24 Risk factors

    The data support that the midbrain may be more sensitive to the neuroinflammatory effects of subchronic air pollution exposure.

  16. Effect of prolonged exposure to diesel engine exhaust on proinflammatory markers in different regions of the rat brain

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Particle and fibre toxicology 2010-05-17 Risk factors

    Our results indicate that different brain regions may be uniquely responsive to changes induced by exposure to DEE.

  17. Urban air pollution: influences on olfactory function and pathology in exposed children and young adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Experimental and toxicologic pathology : official journal of the Gesellschaft fur Toxikologische Pathologie 2009-03-17 Risk factors

    Mexico City (MC) residents are exposed to severe air pollution and exhibit olfactory bulb inflammation.

  18. Environmental exposures and gene regulation in disease etiology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Environmental health perspectives 2007-09-01 Risk factors

    The reviewed studies indicate that genetic predisposition for disease is best predicted in the context of environmental exposures.

  19. The objectives of the study were (1) to determine whether concentrations of particles in the ambient air of Montreal, Quebec, were associated with daily all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the period 1984 to 1993, and (2) to determine whether groups of the population had higher than average risks of death from exposure to particles.

  20. Cigarette smoking and protection from Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Neurology 1995-06-01 Prevention and risk

    We reviewed 46 published reports associating cigarette smoking and Parkinson's disease.

  21. Parkinson's disease and brain levels of organochlorine pesticides

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 40 out of 100. Annals of neurology 1994-07-01 Risk factors

    Epidemiological studies have suggested an etiologic relationship between pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease (PD).

  22. Traffic-related Noise Exposure and Late-life Dementia and Cognitive Impairment in Mexican-Americans

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) 2020-11-01 Risk factors

    During the follow-up, we identified 159 incident dementia or CIND cases in total.

  23. Diesel Exhaust Extract Exposure Induces Neuronal Toxicity by Disrupting Autophagy

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology 2020-07-01 Risk factors

    The vast majority of neurodegenerative disease cannot be attributed to genetic causes alone and as a result, there is significant interest in identifying environmental modifiers of disease risk.

  24. Air Pollution Neurotoxicity in the Adult Brain: Emerging Concepts from Experimental Findings

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Risk factors

    Epidemiological studies are associating elevated exposure to air pollution with increased risk of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.

  25. Ozone and Particulate Matter Exposure and Alzheimer's Disease: A Review of Human and Animal Studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 39 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2020 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD), an aging-related neurodegenerative disease, is a major cause of dementia in the elderly.

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