The Effect of Airborne Contaminants Exposure on Early Health Damage Biomarkers: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Air Pollution and Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 50
Special Issue Editors
Interests: air pollution; cardiovascular health; environmental epidemiology; epigenetics; mental health
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Interests: environmental epidemiology and biostatistics; climate change; extreme weather; air pollution; public health
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: air pollution and health; climate change and health; cohort study; time-series study
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Air pollution is air contamination due to various airborne contaminants that are harmful to human health and are among the leading risk factors for disease burden globally. Exposure to airborne contaminants has been linked to a series of chronic diseases, including but not limited to cardiovascular, respiratory, mental, neurological, and reproductive diseases. It has been demonstrated that airborne contaminants could enter the body through the respiratory tract and circulatory system, cause complex internal cellular responses that are followed by biological effects, and lead to adverse health outcomes. The cellular responses and biological effects lie in the early stage of health damage by airborne contaminants. They could be reflected by changes in various biomarkers related to inflammation, oxidative stress, endothelial dysfunction, coagulation, autonomic imbalance, metabolic disorder, epigenetic modifications, etc. However, current studies are mainly based on cross-sectional or panel study design, limiting the convincing causal links between air pollution and biomarkers, and heterogeneity also exists among current evidence. The Special Issue aims to publish studies investigating the early health damage biomarkers and related mechanisms for the effect of airborne contaminants, particularly those from well-designed longitudinal research. Your contribution to the Special Issue is greatly appreciated and will greatly add to the existing literature.
Prof. Dr. Shaowei Wu
Prof. Dr. Jun Yang
Prof. Dr. Shengzhi Sun
Dr. Cong Liu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- airborne contaminants
- biomarkers
- biological effects
- cellular responses
- chronic diseases
- early health damage
- mechanisms
