PhD student and researcher Mingwei Liu (UMC Utrecht) and colleagues searched seven databases for systematic reviews on associations between objectively measured long-term built environmental exposures, covering at least one domain (i.e., outdoor air pollution, food environment, physical activity environment like greenspace and walkability, urbanisation, light pollution, residential noise, and ambient temperature), and CVD events in adults.
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Countries across Europe committed to take urgent action to stop millions of preventable deaths every year linked to climate change and pollution during the 7th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health, organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe during 5-7 July in Budapest, Hungary. ATHLETE, EXPANSE and EQUAL-LIFE, partners in the European Human Exposome Network (EHEN), participated in the event to highlight the various ways research into the exposome can benefit future policy action to end pollution and protect health.
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How many microplastics do you ingest every day? You do not only breathe them, but they also enter your body in large quantities through food, drinks and cosmetics, among other things. Together with 100 women from the Utrecht region, aged 18-45, researchers from UMC Utrecht and Utrecht University will map how many microplastics are present in their bodies and what the impact of external factors is.
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The environment we live in has a dominant impact on our health. It explains an estimated seventy percent of the chronic disease burden. Where we live, what we eat, how much we exercise, the air we breathe and whom we associate with; all of these environmental factors play a role. The combination of these factors over the life course is called the exposome. There is general (scientific) consensus that understanding more about the exposome will help explain the current burden of disease and that it provides entry points for prevention and ...
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