ABSTRACT
Environmental risk factors – noise, air pollution, chemical agents, and ultraviolet radiation – impact human health by contributing to the onset and progression of noncommunicable diseases. Accordingly, there is need for preclinical and clinical studies and comprehensive summary of major findings. This book is a state-of-the-art summary of these myriad severe life stressors. The chapters on the different pollutants focus on disease mechanisms (cardiovascular, neurological and metabolic disorders) and on oxidative stress and inflammation. The editors emphasize emerging mechanisms based on dysregulation of the circadian clock, the microbiome, epigenetic pathways, and cognitive function by environmental stressors, and introduce the exposome concept while highlighting existing research gaps.
Key Features:
- Links various environmental stressors to the incidence of noncommunicable diseases
- Includes chapters on airborne toxins, chemical pollutants, noise, and ultraviolet radiation stressors
- Contributions from an international team of leading researchers
- Summarizes the impacts of stressors on disease mechanisms
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section Section I|33 pages
Conceptual
chapter 1|8 pages
Man-Made Environment or Living in the Anthropocene
chapter 2|12 pages
The Exposome Concept
section Section II|54 pages
Airborne Toxins
section Section III|89 pages
Other Chemical Pollutants
chapter 9|16 pages
Environmental Heavy Metals, Oxidative Stress and Disease Potential
chapter 12|17 pages
Microplastics and Nanoplastics Contamination
chapter 13|12 pages
Water Pipe Smoking and E-Cigarettes
section Section IV|69 pages
Other Physical Stressors (Noise, UV, and EMF)
chapter 17|11 pages
Imaging of Metabolic Activity Adaptations to UV Stress and Differentiation at Cellular Resolution in Skin and Skin Equivalents
section Section V|30 pages
Mental Stress