Fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) in the United States has fallen by roughly half since 2000, yet linked health outcomes such as diabetes and childhood ADHD have not improved in parallel. One reconciling possibility is that pollution exposure in early life produces health effects that emerge only years or decades later, after pollution itself has declined. Using two decades of U.S. county-level data, we relate annual PM2.5 estimates to birth outcomes, diabetes prevalence, and small-area estimates of childhood attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) across short and long time scales. Within counties, changes in low birth weight rates are associated with changes in PM2.5 during the same year and the year prior to birth. At longer time scales, cross-county comparisons show that PM2.5 exposure is associated with higher prevalence of adult diabetes and ADHD after approximately a decade. Together, these patterns suggest that population-level health risks from air pollution may persist over decades, even as pollution itself declines.
Prenatal and postnatal exposure to air pollution has been associated in multiple epidemiological studies with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in children, including in New York City cohorts. Studies are lacking on changes in associations between air quality and neurodevelopmental outcomes over recent decades that h...
Frederica P. Perera, Yuqi Miao, Shuang Wang et al.· Environmental Health· 0 citations
Importance: Long-term exposure to higher average air pollutant concentrations is associated with poorer cognitive health, but annual averages can obscure substantial differences in day-to-day exposure. Whether recurrent high pollution days are associated with long-term cognitive aging trajectories among people with sim...
M. Bloomberg, G. Di Gessa, S. Scholes et al.· medRxiv· 0 citations
BACKGROUND
Although mortality effects of short- and long-term air pollution exposure have been widely studied, temporal and intergenerational variations in vulnerability across age and cause-specific groups remain unclear.
METHODS
We analyzed over 3.2 million individual death records from the ten most populated Japan...
Lei Yuan, A. Tobías, Yasushi Honda et al.· Environment International· 0 citations
Higher ambient PM2.5 exposure was associated with increased odds of diabetes-related mortality in California even after adjustment for NO2 and other impact factors, and these findings support the need for continued strengthening of ambient air quality regulations.
Richy Zheng, Jason G. Su, E. Shahriary et al.· Frontiers in Public Health· 0 citations
Particulate matter (PM2.5 and PM10) air pollution is a major environmental concern with well-documented links to health and life satisfaction. While mechanistic pathways underlying these associations are being actively researched, the genetic and environmental sources of these links remain largely unexplored. In this r...
Dmitry V. Kuznetsov, Moana Beyer, Mirko Ruks et al.· Environmental Research· 0 citations
This study investigated the effect of in utero exposure to pollution (PM2.5 and NO2), on trajectories of cognitive-behavioral development between ages 1.5 and 3 years. The prenatal period represents a critical window for child development, during which the brain is particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of air...
Sameera Ramjan, Donato DeIngeniis, Claire J. Brabander et al.· Child Neuropsychology: A Jou...· 0 citations
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