ArticleEnvironmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.)2023
Long-term exposure to air pollution and prevalent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease.
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- Systematic review and meta-analysis on the health effects of long-term exposure to ultrafine particles.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2026Pooled it
- Association between exposure to air pollutants and NAFLD/MAFLD: a meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2025Pooled it
- Association between air pollution and risk of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: an updated meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Radiologic exposomics: imaging the environmental imprint on cancer for precision oncology.La Radiologia medica · 2026Review
- Depression Mediates the Association Between Ambient Air Pollution and Gastrointestinal/Liver Diseases: A Prospective Cohort Study.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2026Article
- Exposure-shaped immunometabolic networks in chronic liver disease: translating multi-omics and artificial intelligence into preventive biomarkers.Frontiers in immunology · 2026Review
- The hepatocellular model of fatty liver disease: from current imaging diagnostics to innovative proteomics technologies.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- Forns index and fatty liver index, but not FIB-4, are associated with indices of glycaemia, pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes: analysis of The Maastricht Study.BMJ open gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Ambient air pollution exposure is associated with liver fat and stiffness in Latino youth with a more pronounced effect in those with PNPLA3 genotype and more advanced liver disease.Ecotoxicology and environmental safety · 2024Article
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- Could Adverse Effects of Antibiotics Due to Their Use/Misuse Be Linked to Some Mechanisms Related to Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease?International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Exploring the relationship between air pollution, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and liver function indicators: a two-sample Mendelian randomization analysis study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Background: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a disease characterized by lipid accumulation within hepatocytes, ranging from simple steatosis to steatohepatitis, in the absence of secondary causes of hepatic fat accumulation. Although air pollution (AP) has been associated with several conditions related to NAFLD (e.g., metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes mellitus), few studies have explored an association between AP and NAFLD. The aim of the study was to investigate whether exposure to AP is associated with NAFLD prevalence. Methods: We used baseline cross-sectional data (2000-2003) of the Heinz-Nixdorf-Recall cohort study in Germany (baseline n = 4,814), a prospective population-based cohort study in the urbanized Ruhr Area. Mean annual exposure to size-fractioned particulate matter (PM Results: We observed a NAFLD prevalence of 31.7% (n = 1,288). All air pollutants were positively associated with NAFLD prevalence, with an OR per interquartile range for PM Conclusion: There was a positive association between long-term AP exposure and NAFLD.
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