Barbara Hoffmann

TL;DR: Early life travelling to places which substantially differ from home environment in terms of climate, vegetation and food could increase the exposure to further unknown allergens and hence promote the development of allergies, but no epidemiological study has investigated this speculation.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors consider the recent body of evidence on the effects of long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on total mortality from natural causes and present the rationale for conducting additional analyses within the framework of the health impact assessment (HIA) conducted for the revision of the EU AAQD, based on the recently published European “Effects of Low-Level Air Pollution: A Study in Europe” (ELAPSE) study.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the associations between air pollution, traffic noise, and structural measures of the Default Mode Network (DMN), a functional brain network known to undergo specific changes with age, and found weak inverse associations between AP and cortical thickness in the right anterior DMN (e.g., −0.010mm [-0.022, 0.002] per 0.3 unit increase in PM2.5abs) and lateral part of the posterior DMN.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors used Cox proportional hazards models to assess the association of residential exposure to fine particles (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), black carbon (BC), warm season ozone (O3), and eight elemental components (copper, iron, potassium, nickel, sulfur, silicon, vanadium, and zinc) with kidney parenchyma.