A5005648059- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- Noise Effects and Management
- Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Global Health Care Issues
- Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies
- Transportation Planning and Optimization
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Vehicle Noise and Vibration Control
- Impact of Light on Environment and Health
- Climate Change Policy and Economics
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- demographic modeling and climate adaptation
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Medical and Biological Ozone Research
NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre
2021-2025
Imperial College London
2009-2025
MRC Centre for Environment and Health
2014-2025
National Institute for Health Research
2010-2024
Medical Research Council
2018-2021
King's College London
2011-2020
Public Health England
2018-2019
King's College - North Carolina
2019
National Health Service
2018
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
2010-2016
Air pollution is a worldwide environmental health issue. Increasingly, reports suggest that poor air quality may be associated with mental problems, but these studies often use global measures and rarely focus on early development when psychopathology commonly emerges. To address this, we combined high-resolution exposure estimates prospectively-collected phenotypic data to explore concurrent longitudinal associations between pollutants of major concern in urban areas problems childhood...
Objective To investigate whether the incidence of dementia is related to residential levels air and noise pollution in London. Design Retrospective cohort study using primary care data. Setting 75 Greater London practices. Participants 130 978 adults aged 50–79 years registered with their general practices on 1 January 2005, no recorded history or home residence. Primary secondary outcome measures A first diagnosis and, where specified, subgroups Alzheimer’s disease vascular during...
<b>Objective</b> To investigate the association of aircraft noise with risk stroke, coronary heart disease, and cardiovascular disease in general population. <b>Design</b> Small area study. <b>Setting</b> 12 London boroughs nine districts west exposed to related Heathrow airport London. <b>Population</b> About 3.6 million residents living near airport. Risks for hospital admissions were assessed 110 census output areas (average population about 300 inhabitants) risks mortality 2378 super...
AimsRoad traffic noise has been associated with hypertension but evidence for the long-term effects on hospital admissions and mortality is limited. We examined of exposure to road in general population.
Urbanicity is a well-established risk factor for clinical (eg, schizophrenia) and subclinical hearing voices paranoia) expressions of psychosis. To our knowledge, no studies have examined the association air pollution with adolescent psychotic experiences, despite being major environmental problem in cities.To examine between exposure to experiences test whether mediates urban residency experiences.The Environmental-Risk Longitudinal Twin Study population-based cohort study 2232 children...
Objectives: To alleviate traffic congestion in Central London, the Mayor introduced Congestion Charging Scheme (CCS) February 2003. We modelled impact of CCS on levels pollutants, life expectancy and socioeconomic inequalities. Methods: Annual average NO 2 PM 10 were using an emission-dispersion model. assumed meteorology vehicle fleet remained constant during pre- post-CCS periods to isolate changes due flow. Air pollution concentrations linked small area socioeconomic, population mortality...
Few epidemiologic studies have investigated associations of air pollution with cognition in older adults, and none has specifically compared across particle sources. We whether exposure to particulate pollution, characterized by size source, was associated cognitive function decline function.We included participants the Whitehall II cohort who were residents greater London attended medical examination study wave 2007-2009 (n = 2867). Annual average concentrations matter (PM) (PM10 PM2.5 from...
<h3>Abstract</h3> <h3>Objective</h3> To investigate the relation between exposure to both air and noise pollution from road traffic birth weight outcomes. <h3>Design</h3> Retrospective population based cohort study. <h3>Setting</h3> Greater London surrounding counties up M25 motorway (2317 km<sup>2</sup>), UK, 2006 2010. <h3>Participants</h3> 540 365 singleton term live births. <h3>Main outcome measures</h3> Term low (LBW), small for gestational age (SGA) at term, weight. <h3>Results</h3>...
This paper describes the development of a model for assessing TRAffic Noise EXposure (TRANEX) in an open-source geographic information system. Instead using proprietary software we developed our own two main reasons: 1) so that treatment source geometry, traffic (flows/speeds/spatially varying diurnal profiles) and receptors matched as closely possible to air pollution modelling being undertaken TRAFFIC project, 2) optimize performance practical reasons needing implement noise with detailed...
Abstract The anthropogenic heat emissions generated by human activities in London are analysed detail for 2005–2008 and considered context of long‐term past future trends (1970–2025). Emissions from buildings, road traffic metabolism finely resolved space (30 min) time (200 × 200 m 2 ). Software to compute visualize the results is provided. annual mean flux Greater 10.9 W −2 2005–2008, with highest peaks central zone (CAZ) associated extensive service industry activities. Towards outskirts...
Road traffic gives rise to noise and air pollution exposures, both of which are associated with adverse health effects especially for cardiovascular disease, but mechanisms may differ. Understanding the variability in correlations between these pollutants is essential understand better their separate joint on human health. We explored associations modelled using different spatial units area characteristics London 2003-2010. annual average exposures road (LAeq,24h, Lden, LAeq,16h, Lnight)...
Abstract Purpose The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently ranked air pollution as the major environmental cause of premature death. However, significant potential health and societal costs poor mental in relation to quality are not represented WHO report due limited evidence. We aimed test hypothesis that long-term exposure is associated with health. Methods A prospective longitudinal population-based survey was conducted 1698 adults living 1075 households South East London, from 2008...
Low emission zones (LEZ) are an increasingly common, but unevaluated, intervention aimed at improving urban air quality and public health. We investigated the impact of London's LEZ on children's respiratory health.We did a sequential annual cross-sectional study 2164 children aged 8-9 years attending primary schools between 2009-10 2013-14 in central London, UK, following introduction February, 2008. examined association modelled pollutant exposures nitrogen oxides (including dioxide [NO2])...
There is relatively little evidence of health effects long-term exposure to traffic-related pollution in susceptible populations. We investigated whether traffic air and noise was associated with all-cause mortality or hospital readmission for myocardial infarction (MI) among survivors admission MI. Patients from the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project database resident Greater London (n = 18,138) were followed death High spatially-resolved annual average (11 metrics primary traffic,...
Evidence for associations between ambient air pollution and preterm birth stillbirth is inconsistent. Road traffic produces both pollutants noise, but few studies have examined these co-exposures together none to date with all-cause or cause-specific stillbirths. To analyse the relationship long-term exposure noise at address level during pregnancy risk of stillbirth. The study population comprised 581,774 live still births in Greater London area, 2006-2010. Outcomes were (<37 completed...
Background Growing evidence suggests that air pollution exposure may adversely affect the brain and increase risk for psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia depression. However, little is known about potential role of in severity relapse following illness onset. Aims To examine longitudinal association between residential mental health service use (an indicator relapse) among individuals with first presentations psychotic mood disorders. Method We identified aged ≥15 years who had...
<h3>Importance</h3> Air pollution exposure damages the brain, but its associations with development of psychopathology are not fully characterized. <h3>Objective</h3> To assess whether air in childhood and adolescence is associated greater at 18 years age. <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3> The Environmental-Risk Longitudinal Twin Study a population-based cohort study 2232 children born from January 1, 1994, to December 4, 1995, across England Wales followed up Pollution data generation...