Environmental pollution,a hidden culprit for health issues

作     者：Hanqing Xu Yang Jia Zhendong Sun Jiahui Su Qian S.Liu Qunfang Zhou Guibin Jiang 

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Environmental Chemistry and EcotoxicologyResearch Center for Eco-Environmental SciencesChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100085China National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center of Ecological Treatment Technology for Urban Water Pollutionand Zhejiang Provincial Key Lab for Subtropical Water Environment and Marine Biological Resources ProtectionWenzhou UniversityWenzhou325035China School of EnvironmentHangzhou Institute for Advanced StudyUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesHangzhou310000China College of Resources and EnvironmentUniversity of Chinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100049China Institute of Environment and HealthJianghan UniversityWuhan430056China 

出 版 物：《Eco-Environment & Health》 (生态环境与健康（英文）)

年 卷 期：2022年第1卷第3期

页      面：31-45页

学科分类：08[工学] 0815[工学-水利工程] 

基　　金：supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(2018YFA0901101) the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22193050,92143301,22176203) 

主　　题：Environmental pollution Public health emergency Epidemiological evidence Pathological study Cause-and-effect relationship 

摘      要：The environmental and health impacts from the massive discharge of chemicals and subsequent pollution have been gaining increasing public *** unintended exposure to different pollutants,such as heavy metals,air pollutants and organic chemicals,may cause diverse deleterious effects on human bodies,resulting in the incidence and progression of different *** article reviewed the outbreak of environmental pollution-related public health emergencies,the epidemiological evidence on certain pollution-correlated health effects,and the pathological studies on specific pollutant *** recalling the notable historical life-threatening disasters incurred by local chemical pollution,the damning evidence was presented to criminate certain pollutants as the main culprit for the given health *** epidemiological data on the prevalence of some common diseases revealed a variety of environmental pollutants to blame,such as endocrine-disrupting chemicals(EDCs),fine particulate matters(PMs)and heavy *** retrospection of toxicological studies provided illustrative clues for evaluating ambient pollutant-induced health ***,environmental pollution,as the hidden culprit,should answer for the increasing public health burden,and more efforts are highly encouraged to strive to explore the cause-and-effect relationships through extensive epidemiological and pathological studies.