Car free cities: Pathway to healthy urban living

MJ Nieuwenhuijsen, H Khreis - Environment international, 2016 - Elsevier
Background Many cities across the world are beginning to shift their mobility solution away
from the private cars and towards more environmentally friendly and citizen-focused means …

Urban and transport planning, environmental exposures and health-new concepts, methods and tools to improve health in cities

MJ Nieuwenhuijsen - Environmental health, 2016 - Springer
Background The majority of people live in cities and urbanization is continuing worldwide.
Cities have long been known to be society's predominant engine of innovation and wealth …

Long-term exposure to multiple ambient air pollutants and association with incident depression and anxiety

T Yang, J Wang, J Huang, FJ Kelly, G Li - JAMA psychiatry, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Air pollution is increasingly recognized as an important environmental risk factor
for mental health. However, epidemiologic evidence on long-term exposure to low levels of …

Mortality and morbidity effects of long-term exposure to low-level PM2. 5, BC, NO2, and O3: an analysis of European cohorts in the ELAPSE project

B Brunekreef, M Strak, J Chen… - Research Reports …, 2021 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND The growing scientific evidence for effects of air pollution on health at
concentrations below current air quality standards and the large burden of disease attributed …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of linear regression, regularization, and machine learning algorithms to develop Europe-wide spatial models of fine particles and nitrogen …

J Chen, K de Hoogh, J Gulliver, B Hoffmann… - Environment …, 2019 - Elsevier
Empirical spatial air pollution models have been applied extensively to assess exposure in
epidemiological studies with increasingly sophisticated and complex statistical algorithms …

Early-life environmental exposures and childhood obesity: an exposome-wide approach

M Vrijheid, S Fossati, L Maitre, S Márquez… - Environmental …, 2020 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Chemical and nonchemical environmental exposures are increasingly
suspected to influence the development of obesity, especially during early life, but studies …

Obesity and the relation between joint exposure to ambient air pollutants and incident type 2 diabetes: a cohort study in UK Biobank

X Li, M Wang, Y Song, H Ma, T Zhou, Z Liang… - PLoS Medicine, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Background Air pollution has been related to incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D). We
assessed the joint association of various air pollutants with the risk of T2D and examined …

Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

R Beelen, O Raaschou-Nielsen, M Stafoggia… - The lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
Background Few studies on long-term exposure to air pollution and mortality have been
reported from Europe. Within the multicentre European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution …

Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts: prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

O Raaschou-Nielsen, ZJ Andersen, R Beelen… - The lancet …, 2013 - thelancet.com
Background Ambient air pollution is suspected to cause lung cancer. We aimed to assess
the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and lung cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and sector-specific contributions of emissions to ambient air pollution and mortality in European cities: a health impact assessment

S Khomenko, E Pisoni, P Thunis… - The Lancet Public …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Ambient air pollution is a major risk to health and wellbeing in European cities.
We aimed to estimate spatial and sector-specific contributions of emissions to ambient air …