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ReviewSports (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Air Pollution and Its Impact on Health and Performance in Football Players.

George John, Ekaterina A Semenova, Dana Amr Mohamed, Tiffany Georges Abi Antoun, Rinat A Yusupov, Ildus I Ahmetov

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Review in Sports (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

George JohnTransform Specialist Medical Centre, Dubai 119190, United Arab Emirates.
Ekaterina A SemenovaResearch Institute of Physical Culture and Sport, Volga Region State University of Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism, 420138 Kazan, Russia.ORCID 0000-0003-1248-2855
Dana Amr MohamedTransform Specialist Medical Centre, Dubai 119190, United Arab Emirates.
Tiffany Georges Abi AntounTransform Specialist Medical Centre, Dubai 119190, United Arab Emirates.
Rinat A YusupovDepartment of Physical Culture and Sport, Kazan National Research Technical University Named After A.N. Tupolev-KAI, 420111 Kazan, Russia.
Ildus I AhmetovLaboratory of Genetics of Aging and Longevity, Kazan State Medical University, 420012 Kazan, Russia.ORCID 0000-0002-6335-4020

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Air pollution is an escalating global concern with significant implications for human health and athletic performance. This narrative review synthesizes and critically compares the current literature on the impact of air pollution on health and football performance, elucidates the physiological mechanisms involved, and evaluates available mitigation strategies. Comparative studies consistently demonstrate that football players-who frequently engage in high-intensity outdoor exercise-are particularly susceptible to the harmful effects of airborne pollutants such as particulate matter (PM), volatile organic compounds (VOCs), nitrogen dioxide (NO

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athletesDNAexercisefootballersgenotypemendelian randomizationpollutantspolymorphismsoccer

Identifiers

PMID40559682
PMCPMC12197153

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