SynthesisJournal of internal medicine2022
Ambient air pollution and cardiovascular diseases: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.
Synthesis in Journal of internal medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 238 papers, 14 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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238 citing papers in PubMed, 14 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 512 citations in OpenAlex.
- The Indoor Microbiome: Sampling, Analysis and Emerging Trends.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Pooled it
- Association between PMBMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Association of cooking fuel type with hypertension risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Impact of Ambient Air Pollution on Cardiovascular Diseases in Low- and Lower-Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Global heart · 2026Pooled it
- Impact of Short-Term Exposure to Ozone on Hospital Admissions for Multiple Cardiovascular Diseases: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Pooled it
- Physical Activity, Air Pollution, and Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2025Pooled it
- Association between exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances and levels of lipid profile based on human studies.Reviews on environmental health · 2025Pooled it
- Effects of air pollution on the development and progression of digestive diseases: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Outdoor air pollution and hospitalizations for ischemic heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Molecular Pathways Linking High-Fat Diet and PMBiomolecules · 2024Pooled it
- The association between air pollution and obesity: an umbrella review of meta-analyses and systematic reviews.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Innovating health prevention models in detecting infectious disease outbreaks through social media data: an umbrella review of the evidence.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Air pollutants and ovarian reserve: a systematic review of the evidence.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Effect of HEPA Filtration Air Purifiers on Blood Pressure: A Pragmatic Randomized Crossover Trial.Journal of the American College of Cardiology · 2025Trial
- Urban environment, health, and equity: A population-based study of symptoms and annoyances related to air pollution, traffic noise, and greenness.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2026Article
- Environmental Exposures and Epigenetic Remodeling in Supraventricular Tachycardias: What Atrial Fibrillation Can and Cannot Tell Us.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- No one is immune: neighborhood trends and disparities in air pollution exposure in the city of Chicago during summer 2023 wildfires.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2026Article
- Impacts of contemporaneous air pollution exposure on cognitive performance in Kenya.Journal of health economics · 2026Article
- Health Risk of Fine Particulate Matter Across China with a Pollutant-Specific Index from 2013 to 2023.Environmental science & technology · 2026Article
178 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
The available evidence on the effects of ambient air pollution on cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) has increased substantially. In this umbrella review, we summarized the current epidemiological evidence from systematic reviews and meta-analyses linking ambient air pollution and CVDs, with a focus on geographical differences and vulnerable subpopulations. We performed a search strategy through multiple databases including articles between 2010 and 31 January 2021. We performed a quality assessment and evaluated the strength of evidence. Of the 56 included reviews, the most studied outcomes were stroke (22 reviews), all-cause CVD mortality, and morbidity (19). The strongest evidence was found between higher short- and long-term ambient air pollution exposure and all-cause CVD mortality and morbidity, stroke, blood pressure, and ischemic heart diseases (IHD). Short-term exposures to particulate matter <2.5 μm (PM
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