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Studies

237 studies carry this tag.

Date range

1994 to 2026

Top journals

  • Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 24
  • Environmental research 21
  • Environment international 8
  • Environmental health perspectives 8
  • medRxiv 7

130 journals in all.

Newest first, then by address. Each study has a usefulness score out of 100 (rubric version 4.0); tap a score to see what makes it up. Tags were assigned automatically from each study's title and summary. The same studies as a filter in the library.

  1. 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.

  2. Organochlorine pesticide levels and risk of Alzheimer’s disease in north Indian population

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 43 out of 100. Human & Experimental Toxicology 2012-08-16 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) could result from a multifactorial process involving both genetic predisposition and exposure to environmental factors like pesticides.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Neuroinflammation, hyperphosphorylated tau, diffuse amyloid plaques, and down-regulation of the cellular prion protein in air pollution exposed children and young adults

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Alzheimer's disease : JAD 2012-01-01 Risk factors

    Air pollution exposures have been linked to neuroinflammation and neuropathology.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. Biomonitoring and biomarkers of organophosphate pesticides exposure - state of the art

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Annals of agricultural and environmental medicine : AAEM 2011-01-01 Risk factors

    Human biomonitoring provides an efficient and cost-effective way to identify and quantify exposure to chemical substances, including those having deleterious eff ects on human organisms.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. Oxidative stress caused by ozone exposure induces loss of brain repair in the hippocampus of adult rats

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology 2009-10-15 Biomarkers

    Oxidative stress is involved in many neurodegenerative diseases.

  13. Air pollution: mechanisms of neuroinflammation and CNS disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Trends in neurosciences 2009-08-26 Risk factors

    Air pollution has been implicated as a chronic source of neuroinflammation and reactive oxygen species (ROS) that produce neuropathology and central nervous system (CNS) disease.

  14. Elevated serum pesticide levels and risk of Parkinson disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 57 out of 100. Archives of neurology 2009-07-01 Risk factors

    These data suggest that beta-HCH is associated with a diagnosis of PD.

  15. 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.

  16. Genetics, environmental factors and the emerging role of epigenetics in neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Mutation research 2008-10-31 Risk factors

    In the present review we summarize recent advances in the understanding of the interaction between genetics and environmental factors involved in complex multi-factorial neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).

  17. The effects of environmental neurotoxicants on the dopaminergic system: A possible role in drug addiction

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biochemical pharmacology 2008-05-20 Risk factors

    Humans are routinely exposed to a vast array of environmental neurotoxicants, including pesticides, endocrine disrupters, and heavy metals.

  18. Air pollution is a serious environmental problem.

  19. Nanomaterials and nanoparticles: sources and toxicity

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Biointerphases 2007-12-01 Risk factors

    Significantly, technological advancement has also changed the character of particulate pollution, increasing the proportion of nanometer-sized particles--"nanoparticles"--and expanding the variety of chemical compositions.

  20. Effects of PM2.5Collected from Cache Valley Utah on Genes Associated with the Inflammatory Response in Human Lung Cells

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health 2007-09-13 Risk factors

    In January 2004, the normally picturesque Cache Valley in northern Utah made national headlines with the highest PM2.5 levels in the nation.

  21. 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.

  22. Epidemiologic studies of environmental exposures in Parkinson's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of the neurological sciences 2007-07-27 Risk factors

    Parkinson's disease (PD) is the most common cause of the parkinsonian syndromes and the most frequent neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer's disease.

  23. Environmental and dietary risk factors in Alzheimer's disease

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Expert review of neurotherapeutics 2007-07-01 Risk factors

    Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects millions in the aging population worldwide and will affect millions more in the next 20 years.

  24. Occupational risk factors in Alzheimer's disease: a review assessing the quality of published epidemiological studies

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Occupational and environmental medicine 2007-05-24 Risk factors

    Epidemiological evidence of an association between Alzheimer's disease (AD) and the most frequently studied occupational exposures--pesticides, solvents, electromagnetic fields (EMF), lead and aluminium--is inconsistent.

  25. Environmental risk factors for Parkinson's disease and parkinsonism: the Geoparkinson study

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Occupational and environmental medicine 2007-03-01 Risk factors

    The association of pesticide exposure with Parkinson's disease suggests a causative role.

  26. Pediatric respiratory and systemic effects of chronic air pollution exposure: nose, lung, heart, and brain pathology

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Toxicologic pathology 2007-01-01 Risk factors

    Exposures to particulate matter and gaseous air pollutants have been associated with respiratory tract inflammation, disruption of the nasal respiratory and olfactory barriers, systemic inflammation, production of mediators of inflammation capable of reaching the brain and systemic circulation of particulate matter.

  27. Potential occupational risks for neurodegenerative diseases

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 41 out of 100. American journal of industrial medicine 2005-07-01 Risk factors

    Support was observed for hypothesized excess neurodegenerative disease associated with a variety of occupations, 60 Hz magnetic fields and welding.

  28. Brain inflammation and Alzheimer's-like pathology in individuals exposed to severe air pollution

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Toxicologic pathology 2004-11-01 Risk factors

    Air pollution is a complex mixture of gases (e.g., ozone), particulate matter, and organic compounds present in outdoor and indoor air.

  29. The built environment and mental health

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 55 out of 100. Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 2003-12-01 Disparities

    The built environment has direct and indirect effects on mental health.

  30. DNA damage in nasal and brain tissues of canines exposed to air pollutants is associated with evidence of chronic brain inflammation and neurodegeneration

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Toxicologic pathology 2003-09-01 Risk factors

    Acute, subchronic, or chronic exposures to particulate matter (PM) and pollutant gases affect people in urban areas and those exposed to fires, disasters, and wars.

  31. 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).

  32. Air pollution and brain damage

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Toxicologic pathology 2002-05-01 Risk factors

    Exposure to complex mixtures of air pollutants produces inflammation in the upper and lower respiratory tract.

  33. 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.

  34. Neurodegenerative diseases: occupational occurrence and potential risk factors, 1982 through 1991

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. American journal of public health 1996-09-01 Risk factors

    Neurodegenerative disease occurs more frequently in some occupations than in others, and this distribution, which may indicate occupational risk factors, should be further investigated.

  35. Can the controversy of the role of aluminum in Alzheimer's disease be resolved? What are the suggested approaches to this controversy and methodological issues to be considered?

    ✓ Peer-reviewed alzhub usefulness score 36 out of 100. Journal of toxicology and environmental health 1996-08-01 Risk factors

    Hyper-aluminemia often develops in patients with renal failure being treated with intermittent hemodialysis on a chronic basis, and in severe cases results in an encephalopathy.

  36. 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.

  37. 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).

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