Environmental Exposure

"Environmental Exposure" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The exposure to potentially harmful chemical, physical, or biological agents in the environment or to environmental factors that may include ionizing radiation, pathogenic organisms, or toxic chemicals.

Descriptor ID	D004781
MeSH Number(s)	N06.850.460.350
Concept/Terms	Environmental Exposure Environmental Exposure Exposure, Environmental Environmental Exposures Exposures, Environmental

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Health Care [N]
Environment and Public Health [N06]
Public Health [N06.850]
Environmental Pollution [N06.850.460]
Environmental Exposure [N06.850.460.350]

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Bar chart showing 199 publications over 26 distinct years, with a maximum of 17 publications in 2014

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	0	1
2001	0	1	1
2002	1	3	4
2003	7	3	10
2004	2	5	7
2005	2	3	5
2006	0	3	3
2007	4	2	6
2008	2	3	5
2009	4	3	7
2010	4	1	5
2011	10	4	14
2012	2	7	9
2013	8	3	11
2014	13	4	17
2015	11	5	16
2016	7	4	11
2017	9	2	11
2018	9	3	12
2019	3	2	5
2020	2	3	5
2021	3	3	6
2022	0	4	4
2023	1	7	8
2024	2	7	9
2025	7	0	7

Below are the most recent publications written about "Environmental Exposure" by people in Profiles.

Tran E, St Pierre L, Velarde D, Dal B? B, Alvarez JR, Ofosu-Asante K, Lamango NS, Huang Y, Marconett CN, Borok Z, Zhou B, Offringa IA. Immortalization of Human Adult Alveolar Epithelial Cells to Study Environmental Exposures of the Distal Lung. Curr Protoc. 2026 May; 6(5):e70372.

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Penuelas VL, Lo DD. From combustion to consequence: respiratory health concerns from primary and aged smoke at the wildland-urban interface. Front Public Health. 2026; 14:1763671.

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Nazneen S, Ibarra-Mejia G, Jeon S, Ojo B, Gill TE, Ardon-Dryer K, Pradhan KK, Leos J, Herrera G. Investigating the association between PM2.5, Climate variables, and COVID-19 daily reported cases from March 2020 to November 2021 in El Paso County, Texas: A Time-Series Analysis. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2026 Feb; 33(8):3206-3219.

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Dye CK, Kupsco A, Jackson GL, Glabonjat RA, Hakim A, Castro-Martinez A, Laurent LC, Umans JG, Goessler W, Cole SA, Baccarelli AA, Navas-Acien A, Wu H. Extracellular vesicle microRNAs as an epigenetic biosignature of arsenic-associated diabetes in the Strong Heart Study. Environ Res. 2026 Feb 15; 291:123573.

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Rivera-Mariani FE, Srour H, Godoy-Vitorino F, Bola?os-Rosero B, V?lez-Torres LN, Maestre JP, Kinney K, Cavallin H. Indoor dust, immune activation, and household exposure risk after Hurricane Maria: a two-year pilot prospective cohort study in Puerto Rico. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2026 May; 36(3):521-530.

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Xu L, Adepoju OE, Tipton ME, Rifai H. Intersecting risks: A longitudinal analysis of climate exposure, social vulnerability, and mental health in the Texas Gulf Coast. Front Public Health. 2025; 13:1701671.

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Afzal Z, Kumar D. Environmental yin-yang: how external cues are processed at the level of cells and at the level of an organism. Dev Biol. 2026 Feb; 530:57-69.

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Pillarisetti A, Ye W, Peel JL, Chang H, Underhill LJ, Balakrishnan K, D?az-Artiga A, McCracken JP, Rosa G, Thompson LM, Aravindalochanan V, Boyd Barr D, Chen Y, Chiang M, Clark ML, Davila-Roman V, Jabbarzadeh S, Johnson MA, Kirby MA, Lovvorn AE, Naeher LP, Ndagijimana F, Piedrahita R, Puttaswamy N, Waller LA, Wang J, Williams KN, Nicolaou L, Checkley W, Clasen TF, Rosenthal JP, Steenland K. Household air pollution and blood pressure among adult women participants of the Household Air Pollution Intervention Network Trial: An exposure-response analysis. Environ Res. 2025 Nov 15; 285(Pt 5):122570.

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Rosser FJ, Yue M, Han YY, Forno E, Qoyawayma C, Manni ML, Acosta-P?rez E, Canino G, Chen W, Celed?n JC. Long-Term PM2.5 Exposure and Upregulation of CLCA1 Expression in Nasal Epithelium from Youth with Asthma. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 Jun; 22(6):872-880.

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Rodr?guez Quintana S, von Hippel FA, Orozco M, Solomons N, Billheimer D, Sans-Fuentes MA, Amistadi MK, Sneed S, Beamer P, Zamora A, Rivera E, Forsten R, Gandhi P. Exposure to toxic metal(loid)s via breastmilk and stunting in infants living in the Lake Atitl?n watershed, Guatemala. Environ Pollut. 2025 Jun 15; 375:126273.

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