ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2021
SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 pathogenesis, and exposure to air pollution: What is the connection?
Review in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 84 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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84 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 164 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Wildfire-related PM2.5 and respiratory transmitted disease among Chinese children and adolescents from 2008 to 2019: A retrospective study.PLoS medicine · 2025Article
- Effects of meteorological factors and atmospheric pollutants on the prevalence of respiratory adenovirus in children in Lanzhou, Northwest China.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Dynamic and static analysis of environmental variables in coronavirus spread.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Spatiotemporal Association of Coronavirus Disease 2019 Cases and Deaths With Exposure to Wildfire Particulate Matter in 2020.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Air Pollution and Endurance Exercise: A Systematic Review of the Potential Effects on Cardiopulmonary Health.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Climate Change and the Future of Allergies and Asthma.Current allergy and asthma reports · 2025Review
- SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Risk of New Chronic Conditions: Insights from a Longitudinal Population-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Air Pollution and Influenza Incidence: Evidence from Highly Polluted Countries.Iranian journal of public health · 2025Article
- Correlation analysis between the prevalence of common respiratory pathogens and exposure to ambient air pollutants in Central China, 2014-2022.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Relationship between COVID-19 Cases and Environmental Contaminants in Quito, Ecuador.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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- The landscape of the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland emerging from epidemiological and genomic data.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- An overview for monitoring and prediction of pathogenic microorganisms in the atmosphere.Fundamental research · 2024Review
- Alteration of the health effects of bioaerosols by chemical modification in the atmosphere: A review.Fundamental research · 2024Review
- Is Pollution the Primary Driver of Infectious Syndemics?Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Acute neutrophilic vasculitis (leukocytoclasia) in 36 COVID-19 autopsy brains.Diagnostic pathology · 2024Article
- Analyzing the expression pattern of the noncoding RNAs (HOTAIR, PVT-1, XIST, H19, and miRNA-34a) in PBMC samples of patients with COVID-19, according to the disease severity in Iran during 2022-2023: A cross-sectional study.Health science reports · 2024Article
24 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Exposure to air pollutants has been previously associated with respiratory viral infections, including influenza, measles, mumps, rhinovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus. Epidemiological studies have also suggested that air pollution exposure is associated with increased cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19-associated mortality, although the molecular mechanisms by which pollutant exposure affects viral infection and pathogenesis of COVID-19 remain unknown. In this review, we suggest potential molecular mechanisms that could account for this association. We have focused on the potential effect of exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO
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