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The clear and persistent impact of air pollution on chronic respiratory diseases: a call for interventions

Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Francesco Forastiere, John Balmes, Erika Garcia, Jack Harkema, Stephen Holgate, Frank Kelly, Haneen Khreis, Barbara Hoffmann, Cara Nichole Maesano, Rob McConnell, David Peden, Kent Pinkerton, Tamara Schikowski, George Thurston, Laura S. Van Winkle, Christopher Carlsten
European Respiratory Journal 2021 57: 2002981; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02981-2020
Isabella Annesi-Maesano
1Sorbonne Université and INSERM, Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Dept, Institut Pierre Louis of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France
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Francesco Forastiere
2Environmental Research Group, King's College, London, UK
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John Balmes
3University of California Berkeley-University of California San Francisco Joint Medical Program, Berkeley, CA, USA
4School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
5Dept of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA
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Erika Garcia
6Dept of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Jack Harkema
7Dept of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Investigation, College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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Stephen Holgate
8Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
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Frank Kelly
2Environmental Research Group, King's College, London, UK
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Haneen Khreis
9Center for Advancing Research in Transportation Emissions, Energy, and Health (CARTEEH), Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI), College Station, TX, USA
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Barbara Hoffmann
10Institute for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, Center for Health and Society, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Cara Nichole Maesano
1Sorbonne Université and INSERM, Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Dept, Institut Pierre Louis of Epidemiology and Public Health, Paris, France
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Rob McConnell
11University of Southern California, Preventive Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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David Peden
12Center for Environmental Medicine, Asthma and Lung Biology and Division of Allergy, Immunology and Rheumatology, Dept of Pediatrics, the School of Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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Kent Pinkerton
13Center for Health and the Environment, John Muir Institute of the Environment, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
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Tamara Schikowski
14IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany
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George Thurston
15New York University School of Medicine, Dept of Environmental Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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Laura S. Van Winkle
16Dept of Anatomy, Physiology and Cell Biology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA
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Christopher Carlsten
17Air Pollution Exposure Laboratory, Dept of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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Air pollution is ubiquitous and is responsible for noticeable acute and chronic adverse health effects [1]. Heart diseases and stroke are the most common reasons for morbidity and mortality attributable to air pollution, followed by respiratory diseases, but recently other pathologies have been added to the list. Additionally, air pollution contributes to climate change, another threat to public health.

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Air pollution is responsible for chronic respiratory symptoms and diseases. Efforts to reduce air pollution exposure to protect public health, especially from emissions from both fossil fuel combustion and biomass combustion, are needed urgently. https://bit.ly/3hJtCze

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  • Conflict of interest: I. Annesi-Maesano has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: F. Forastiere has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: J. Balmes is the Physician-Member of the California Air Resources Board, the agency within the California EPA that is responsible for air quality regulation in the state.

  • Conflict of interest: E. Garcia has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: J. Harkema has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: S. Holgate reports grants from UKRI, during the conduct of the study.

  • Conflict of interest: F. Kelly has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: H. Khreis has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: B. Hoffmann has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: C.N. Maesano has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: R. McConnell reports grants from NIH, during the conduct of the study.

  • Conflict of interest: D. Peden has received grant support from NIEHS, EPA and the NSF, but no commercial entity which constitutes a conflict of interest for this manuscript.

  • Conflict of interest: K. Pinkerton has received research funding from the Phillip Morris Research Management Group from 2003 to 2007, educational funds from the American Thoracic Society to teach a postgraduate course in nanoparticle health effects, and a grant support from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and the California Tobacco-Related Research Program to conduct research in models of tobacco-induced disease in rodents and non-human primates.

  • Conflict of interest: T. Schikowski has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: G. Thurston has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: L.S. Van Winkle has nothing to disclose.

  • Conflict of interest: C. Carlsten has nothing to disclose.

  • Received August 6, 2020.
  • Accepted November 9, 2020.
  • Copyright © ERS 2021.
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The clear and persistent impact of air pollution on chronic respiratory diseases: a call for interventions
Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Francesco Forastiere, John Balmes, Erika Garcia, Jack Harkema, Stephen Holgate, Frank Kelly, Haneen Khreis, Barbara Hoffmann, Cara Nichole Maesano, Rob McConnell, David Peden, Kent Pinkerton, Tamara Schikowski, George Thurston, Laura S. Van Winkle, Christopher Carlsten
European Respiratory Journal Mar 2021, 57 (3) 2002981; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02981-2020

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Isabella Annesi-Maesano, Francesco Forastiere, John Balmes, Erika Garcia, Jack Harkema, Stephen Holgate, Frank Kelly, Haneen Khreis, Barbara Hoffmann, Cara Nichole Maesano, Rob McConnell, David Peden, Kent Pinkerton, Tamara Schikowski, George Thurston, Laura S. Van Winkle, Christopher Carlsten
European Respiratory Journal Mar 2021, 57 (3) 2002981; DOI: 10.1183/13993003.02981-2020
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