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Air pollution is a significant environmental health risk for urban areas and developing countries. Air pollution may contribute to the incidence of cardiopulmonary and metabolic diseases. Evidence also points to the role of air pollution in worsening or developing neurological an...

Epidemiological evidence suggests the potential for air pollutants to induce male reproductive toxicity. Of these studies, exposure to the oxidant air pollutant, ozone, during sensitive windows in the sperm lifecycle has been associated with impaired sperm motility. Based on thes...

Wildland fres contribute signifcantly to the ambient air pollution burden worldwide, causing a range of adverse health efects in exposed populations. The toxicity of woodsmoke, a complex mixture of gases, volatile organic compounds, and particulate matter, is commonly studied in ...

Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) was found to produce vascular injury, possibly by activating platelets within days after exposure. The aim of this study was to investigate the modulatory effects of dietary saturated fatty acids on platelet mitochondrial respir...

Rationale &amp; Objectives: Wildfire smoke is associated with short-term respiratory outcomes including asthma exacerbation in children. As investigations into developmental exposure to wildfire smoke exposure (WSE) on children&rsquo;s longer-term respiratory health are sparse, w...

Wildfire smoke risks are not uniformly distributed across people and places, and the most vulnerable communities are often disproportionately impacted. This study develops a Community Health Vulnerability Index (CHVI) using three major vulnerability components: adaptive capacity,...

Fine particle pollution is a well-established risk to human health. Observational epidemiology generally treats events as though they are independent of one another and so do not examine the role air pollution may play in promoting the progression of disease. Multistate survival ...

In response to increasing wildfire risks, California plans to expand the use of prescribed fire. We characterized the anticipated change in health impacts from exposure to smoke under a future fire-management scenario relative to a historical period (2008&ndash;2016). Using dispe...

Formaldehyde (HCHO) is an important air pollutant with direct cancer risk and ozone-forming potential. HCHO sources are complex because HCHO is both directly emitted and produced from oxidation of most gas-phase reactive organic carbon. We update the secondary production of HCHO ...

Subsurface contamination can migrate upward into overlying buildings, exposing the buildings&rsquo; inhabitants to contaminants that can cause detrimental health effects. This phenomenon is known as vapor intrusion (VI). When evaluating a building for VI, one must understand that...

Adrenergic receptors (AR) are manipulated therapeutically for the treatment of pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases; however, their role in air pollutant-induced respiratory effects is poorly understood. We examined the contribution of AR-subtypes in acrolein-induced respiratory...

As 3D printing has become more compact and affordable, the use of the technology has become more prevalent across household, classroom, and small business settings. The emissions of fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printers consist of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and aero...

Psychosocially-stressed individuals have exacerbated responses to air pollution exposure. Acute ozone exposure activates the neuroendocrine stress response leading to systemic metabolic and lung inflammatory changes. We hypothesized chronic mild stress (CS) and/or social isolatio...

Air pollution exposure is ranked as a leading environmental risk factor for adverse health effects. Current evidence links some air pollution health outcomes with activation of neuroendocrine sympathetic-adrenal-medullary and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) stress axes, and ...

Air pollution exposure during pregnancy may affect fetal growth. Fetal growth restriction (FGR) is associated with reduced lung function in children that can persist into adulthood. Using an established model of asymmetrical FGR in Long-Evans rats, this study investigated sex dif...

Maternal exposure to ozone during implantation results in reduced fetal weight gain in rats. Offspring from ozone-exposed dams demonstrate sexually dimorphic risks to high-fat diet feeding in adolescence. To better understand the adolescent hepatic metabolic landscape following f...

Editorial for American Journal of Public Health commenting on a paper entitled "Neighborhood composition and air pollution in Chicago: Monitoring inequities with a dense, low-cost sensing network, 2021".

Background:&nbsp;Evidence from studies of air pollutants and birth outcomes suggests an association, but uncertainties around geographical variability and modifying factors still remain. As neighborhood-level social characteristics are associated with birth outcomes, we assess wh...

Wildland fire (i.e., prescribed fire and wildfire) smoke exposure is an emerging public health threat, in part due to climate change. Previous research has demonstrated disparities in ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure, with Black people, among others, exposed to hi...

As the number of methods for assessing air pollution exposure proliferate there is a need to understand the utility of these metrics (and their uncertainties) for characterizing exposures in determining potential public health outcomes at different spatial and temporal resolution...

Air pollution exposure is a significant risk factor for morbidity and mortality particularly for those with pre-existing chronic disease. Previous studies have highlighted the risks that long-term particulate matter exposure has for readmissions. However, few studies have evaluat...

Air pollution is a risk factor for many cardiovascular diseases, including heart failure (HF). Although the links between air pollution and HF have been explored, the results are scattered and difficult to piece together into a cohesive story. Therefore, we undertook a narrative ...

A critical aspect of air pollution exposure assessments is determining the time spent in various microenvironments (ME). Accounting for the time spent in different MEs with different pollutant concentrations can reduce exposure error. We previously developed and evaluated a ME cl...

Ozone-induced lung injury and inflammation and pulmonary/hypothalamus gene expression changes are diminished in adrenalectomized (AD) rats. Acute ozone exposure induces metabolic alterations concomitant with increases in epinephrine and corticosterone. We hypothesized that adrena...

Stress-related neurobehavioral and metabolic disorders are associated with altered circulating adrenal-derived hormones and hyperglycemia. Temporal assessment of glucose and these hormones is critical for insights on an individual&rsquo;s health. Here we use implantable-telemetry...