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Environmental and Occupational Health Aspects Related to Particulate Matter Exposure
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Environmental and Occupational Health Aspects Related to Particulate Matter Exposure

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2024) | Viewed by 1107

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Balázs Berlinger

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Department of Animal Hygiene, Herd Health and Mobile Clinic, University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest, 1078 Budapest, Hungary
Interests: occupational exposures to chemical substances; occupational and environmental aerosols; biological monitoring of inorganic compounds; atomic spectroscopy; elemental analysis
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Dear Colleagues,

Humans are exposed to particulate matter (PM) from ambient, indoor and workroom air. There are several sources and types of particles, such as combustion-derived particles, e.g., diesel exhaust and wood smoke; unintentionally formed particles, e.g., metal and welding fumes, which contain a large number of particles below 100 nm in diameter and often called ultrafine particles (UFPs); and manufactured or engineered particles, e.g., titanium dioxide, carbon nanotubes, silver nanoparticles and cellulose nanocrystals, which are categorized as nanoparticles (NPs).

PM has been the focus of extensive research for many years and considerable evidence from experimental and epidemiological studies has led to a scientific consensus on the associations between airborne exposure and increased incidence of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases. Occupational exposure to fine particulate matter is at a much higher level compared to ambient air exposure. However, limited evidence of the same association has emerged from occupational settings. Furthermore, it is not yet clear which causative agents present in, e.g., PM10, PM2.5, PM1 and UFP fractions and underlying their mechanisms are responsible for the adverse health effects.

The Special Issue will provide the opportunity to share new research results in the field of environmental and occupational health, toxicology, exposure assessment, measurement strategies, human risk assessment and particle characterization, all in relation to PM exposure.

Dr. Balázs Berlinger
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • physicochemical characterization
  • measurement methodologies
  • health effects
  • toxicological mechanisms
  • risk assessment and mitigation of exposure

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There Is Still a Need for a Comprehensive Investigation of the Health Consequences of Exposure to Urban Air with Special Regard to Particulate Matter (PM) and Cardiovascular Effects
by Balázs Berlinger, Péter Fehérvári, Csaba Kővágó, Katalin Lányi, Gábor Mátis, Máté Mackei and László Könyves
Atmosphere 2024, 15(3), 296; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos15030296 - 28 Feb 2024
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Air pollution is a foremost public health problem worldwide. The pulmonary effects of air pollution have been well established for decades, and substantial epidemiological evidence is consistently showing that both acute and chronic exposure to air pollution is linked to cardiovascular morbidity and [...] Read more.
Air pollution is a foremost public health problem worldwide. The pulmonary effects of air pollution have been well established for decades, and substantial epidemiological evidence is consistently showing that both acute and chronic exposure to air pollution is linked to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. The underlying cause for this link is, however, still unknown, and many questions remain open. Most of the epidemiological studies focusing on health consequences of exposure to urban air used data from air monitoring stations or—when applying personal sampling or monitoring—measured a limited number of components to assess the exposure. On the other hand, studies conducting a decent exposure characterization and measuring a relatively large number of components with personal sampling had little or no focus on the effects and investigated only a few biomarkers. The number of research studies on this topic is huge, but at the same time, it seems as if there was no need for a comprehensive examination of the effects of urban air pollution on health. Researchers and research supporting organizations, in their fascination with the search for “novelty” and “beyond state-of-the-art”, do not seem to be aware of that they will never be able to assemble the whole picture from the puzzle pieces of research activities focusing only on certain aspects. Without a comprehensive investigation, we might never be able to answer such questions as (i) which of the urban air pollutants are forerunners in causing health effects, especially cardiovascular effects? (ii) Which biomarkers have the best predictor performance in early effects? (iii) Are there biomarkers or combinations of biomarkers that can help determine the degree of individual susceptibility and sensitivity and the dependence of these by different factors (e.g., age, gender, and physical activity)? The authors of this article aim to go through the already investigated—at the same time, essential—elements of the topic and propose a more comprehensive study, which, of course, can be expanded, debated, and improved. Full article
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