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{"title":"Environmental Noise Exposure and Risk of Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Ali Momen, Angel M Dzhambov, Bénédicte Jacquemin, Mengmeng Li, Jun Yang, Amir Houshang Mehrparvar, Payam Dadvand, Mohammad Javad Zare Sakhvidi","doi":"10.1007/s40572-025-00504-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-025-00504-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Environmental noise has been identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular and metabolic outcomes. Its association with cancer risk remains poorly understood. This systematic review (on evidence up to February 2025) is to synthesize and meta-analyze the epidemiological evidence.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>The studies involved over ten million participants, predominantly from Europe. The most reported outcomes were breast and colorectal cancers, with road traffic noise exposure being the most frequently assessed exposure. The pooled random-effects estimates indicated null association between road traffic noise and breast cancer incidence (RR 1.01; 95% CI 0.99-1.03) or mortality (RR 0.98; 95% CI 0.86-1.10), nor with colon cancer subtypes. Studies risk of bias was high to probably high, particularly in exposure assessment and confounding control. Overall, the available evidence does not support an association between traffic noise and cancer incidence or mortality. However, the certainty of evidence is very low due to methodological heterogeneity, high risk of bias, and the limited number of studies for most cancer sites.</p>","PeriodicalId":10775,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Health Reports","volume":"12 1","pages":"36"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145274150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Early Life Exposure To Multiple Metals, Nutrition, and Growth in Children - A Scoping Review.","authors":"Gauri Desai, Nicholas Blatto, Michelle L Zafron, Carole Rudra, Katarzyna Kordas","doi":"10.1007/s40572-025-00502-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40572-025-00502-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In utero and childhood exposure to toxic metals is associated with poor child growth, a predictor of adverse health outcomes. Most existing research focuses on exposure to single metals; the effects of metal mixtures largely remain understudied. Further, few studies consider how diet/nutrients interact with metal mixtures.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To synthesize research on the relationship between in utero and childhood metal mixture exposures, nutritional status-metal exposure interactions, and child anthropometric outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>PubMed and Embase were used to search literature published in 2010-2023. Included studies consisted of at least two in utero or childhood toxic metal exposures and examined anthropometric parameters as their main outcomes. Included articles underwent full-text screenings. Information on exposures, findings, nutritional variables, and statistical methods was extracted.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>After deduplication and title and abstract screening, 95 publications were included; 70 on prenatal growth and 25 on postnatal growth. Nutritional status/diet was assessed as an effect modifier in 4.3% studies on prenatal and 12% studies on postnatal growth. Birthweight (91.4%), and height and body mass index (64%) were common indicators of prenatal and postnatal growth, respectively. Finally, 41.4% of studies on prenatal and 20% on postnatal growth included statistical models that tested for mixture effects.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Although many studies included multiple metals, their mixture effects largely remain untested. Additionally, inclusion of nutritional status/dietary intakes in statistical models is rare, highlighting the need for further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":10775,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Health Reports","volume":"12 1","pages":"35"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12491094/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145205718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Harnessing Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) for Environmental Epidemiology: A Narrative Review.","authors":"Hari S Iyer, Seigi Karasaki, Li Yi, Yulin Hswen, Peter James, Trang VoPham","doi":"10.1007/s40572-025-00497-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40572-025-00497-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Geospatial analysis is an essential tool for research on the role of environmental exposures and health, and critical for understanding impacts of environmental risk factors on diseases with long latency (e.g. cardiovascular disease, dementia, cancers) as well as upstream behaviors including sleep, physical activity, and cognition. There is emerging interest in leveraging machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for environmental epidemiology research. In this review, we provide an accessible overview of recent advances.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>There have been two major recent shifts in geospatial data types and analytic methods. First, novel methods for statistical prediction, combining geospatial analysis with machine learning and artificial intelligence (GeoAI), allow for scalable geospatial exposure assessment within large population health databases (e.g. cohorts, administrative claims). Second, the widespread adoption of smartphones and wearables with global positioning systems and other sensors has allowed for passive data collection from people, and when combined with geographic information systems, enables exposure assessment at finer spatial scales and temporal resolution than ever before. Illustrative examples include refining models for predicting outdoor air pollution exposure, characterizing populations susceptible to water pollution, and use of deep learning to classify Street View image-derived measures of greenspace. While these tools and approaches may facilitate more rapid, higher quality objective exposure measures, they pose challenges with respect to participant privacy, representativeness of collected data, and curation of high quality validation sets for training of GeoAI algorithms. GeoAI approaches are beginning to be used for environmental exposure assessment and behavioral outcome ascertainment with higher spatial and temporal precision than before. Epidemiologists should continue to apply critical assessment of measurement accuracy and design validity when incorporating these new tools into their work.</p>","PeriodicalId":10775,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Health Reports","volume":"12 1","pages":"34"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12474636/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145147989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Universal Truths about Reducing Meat Consumption?","authors":"Tatjana Kwasny, Sarah Marth, Karin Dobernig, Petra Riefler","doi":"10.1007/s40572-025-00498-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40572-025-00498-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10775,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Health Reports","volume":"12 1","pages":"33"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12446401/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145079804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does Home and Wild Food Procurement Enhance Food Security in High-Income Countries?","authors":"Sam Bliss, Ashley C McCarthy, Rebecca C Mitchell, Scott C Merrill, Rachel E Schattman, Janica Anderzén, Meredith T Niles","doi":"10.1007/s40572-025-00495-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-025-00495-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Many people in high-income countries obtain considerable portions of their diets from gardening, hunting, fishing, foraging, and raising animals. Yet food security research in these countries has focused on the roles of commercial and charitable food systems, ignoring non-market food self-provisioning. This review brings together existing evidence to build a holistic understanding of how home and wild food procurement (HWFP) interacts with various dimensions of food security in high-income societies.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>HWFP impacts food security in multiple ways. It can increase food availability, improve dietary quality, provide access to otherwise unaffordable foods, and support the stability of household food supplies through personal hardships and societal shocks, though further research is needed to substantiate when, where, and how these relationships hold. Engaging in HWFP provides people with agency over their food sources and can contribute to shrinking the ecological consequences of food sourcing. However, researchers have identified numerous food safety risks associated with HWFP, as well as ways in which these practices can threaten the sustainability of food systems. More research is needed regarding HWFP's potential to contribute to the overall food supplies of high-income countries, during crises as well as in periods of stability. HWFP clearly contributes to food security in high-income countries, but many of the concrete contours of this contribution remain to be revealed. Food security researchers should further account for the effects of HWFP, and scholars studying HWFP activities should consider food security as both a driver and potential consequence of engaging in these practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":10775,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Health Reports","volume":"12 1","pages":"32"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12380996/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144945909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Systematic Review of Heat Health Warning Systems: Enhancing the Framework Towards Effective Health Outcomes.","authors":"Sai Venkata Sarath Chandra N, Jason Kai Wei Lee","doi":"10.1007/s40572-025-00496-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40572-025-00496-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Heat Health Warning Systems (HHWS) reduce heat-related morbidity and mortality. We reviewed scientific studies on HHWS that use meteorological variables, local climate-epidemiological evidence, personalization, and built environment factors to determine heat stress thresholds. We identified key factors to enhance their precision and effectiveness.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>We categorized the findings into three groups. First, most HHWS rely on temperature-mortality relationships. Second, future HHWS should integrate climate-epidemiology data, including cause-specific mortality and morbidity. Third, improvements can be made by incorporating local, built environment, and personalized factors. Our findings highlight a diverse range of factors that can influence the nature of heat warnings and contribute to improving HHWS. Temperature based HHWS are predominantly used across the world while other meteorological variables that include humidity and take actual health impact outcomes based on heat stress indices should be included for better protection. The precision of HHWS can be improved by tapping advancements in digital technologies to develop more targeted HHWS without the need for authorities to issue warnings, and by considering built environment, and personalized factors. The effectiveness of HHWS can be further improved by considering local climate-epidemiological evidence including morbidity and actual health outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":10775,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Health Reports","volume":"12 1","pages":"31"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12367936/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144945958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metrics of Urbanicity and Rurality in US-Based Epidemiologic Studies of Ambient Temperature and Health: A Scoping Review.","authors":"Nicholaus P Johnson, Alexandra Del Favero-Campbell, Amruta Nori-Sarma, Audrey Amezcua-Smith, Brandon Lewis, Chen Chen, Chengyi Lin, Damien Foo, Garam Byun, Hayon Michelle Choi, Honghyok Kim, Jesse D Berman, Ji-Young Son, Joshua L Warren, Kai Chen, Kate Burrows, Kelvin C Fong, Leo Goldsmith, Marie-Claire Meadows, Morrison Smith, Rory Stewart, Seulkee Heo, Shuqi Lin, Xuejuan Ning, Yongsoo Choi, Michelle L Bell, Nicole C Deziel","doi":"10.1007/s40572-025-00494-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40572-025-00494-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10775,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Health Reports","volume":"12 1","pages":"30"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12364962/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144882387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beyond Genes: Mechanistic and Epidemiological Insights into Paternal Environmental Influence on Offspring Health.","authors":"Ran Shmuel Rotem, Sonia Hernández-Díaz, Russ Hauser, Marc G Weisskopf","doi":"10.1007/s40572-025-00488-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40572-025-00488-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Abstarct: </strong>PURPOSE OF REVIEW: It is widely accepted that maternal genes and the in-utero environment can impact offspring's health. While fathers have long been considered mere conduits of genetic information, emerging evidence suggests that the paternal preconception environment can also affect offspring's health. This review delves into the biological mechanisms, beyond DNA inheritance, by which paternal preconception exogenous exposures can shape offspring outcomes, and factors that influence these mechanisms. We also discuss practical and methodological hurdles in epidemiological studies of male lineage inheritance.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>A wide range of paternal exposures, from environmental pollutants to diet and lifestyle factors, have been linked with offspring's health. Several biological mechanisms, including epigenetic modifications in sperm, alterations in seminal fluid microbiome, and changes in the chemical composition of semen, may mediate these effects. Currently, most data come from animal models. Human research is hindered by difficulties in establishing and maintaining cohorts, accurately assessing paternal exposures, untangling the complex interactions among epigenetic mechanisms, and defining relevant exposure windows. Fathers play a more significant role in shaping their children's health than previously thought. By unraveling the complex mechanisms underlying paternal environmental and genetic influence, we can potentially unlock new opportunities for transgenerational disease prevention and health promotion. The knowledge gained can empower the design of precision environmental health interventions that benefit future generations.</p>","PeriodicalId":10775,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Health Reports","volume":"12 1","pages":"29"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144803847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Endocrine and Reproductive Health Considerations of Sunscreen UV Filters: Insights from a Comprehensive Review 2014-2024.","authors":"Marta Jaskulak, Marlena Cinkusz, Karina Franchuk, Katarzyna Zorena","doi":"10.1007/s40572-025-00492-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40572-025-00492-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose of review: </strong>Chemical (organic) ultraviolet (UV) filters-carbon-based compounds widely used in sunscreen formulations-are essential for protecting against harmful UV radiation. However, emerging evidence over the last decade (2014-2024) has raised concerns regarding their potential endocrine-disrupting effects, environmental persistence, and bioaccumulation. This comprehensive review evaluates the endocrine, reproductive, and developmental health impacts of organic UV filters, with a focus on benzophenone derivatives such as BP-3, BP-2, and 4-OHBP.</p><p><strong>Recent findings: </strong>The analysis incorporates data from 75 studies identified through PRISMA-guided screening of epidemiological and human research. Findings reveal significant hormonal disruptions, including reduced testosterone levels in adolescent males, altered thyroid hormones in pregnant women, and associations with delayed pubertal development in boys and early menarche in girls. Mixed exposures to multiple UV filters, frequently occurring in real-world scenarios, demonstrate cumulative and complex effects, particularly on thyroid hormone levels and reproductive health. In men, benzophenones are associated with decreased sperm quality and motility, while in women, their impact on ovarian reserve and fertility outcomes appears less pronounced. Prenatal exposure studies show mixed outcomes, ranging from reduced neonatal size and gestational age to increased placental-to-birth weight ratios. This review underscores the dual nature of organic UV filters, emphasizing their importance in photoprotection while highlighting the need for a balanced approach to safety evaluations. Future research should prioritize long-term cohort studies, assessments of mixed exposure effects, and the development of safer alternatives. Addressing these challenges is crucial for mitigating risks to human health and the environment while maintaining the protective benefits of sunscreens.</p>","PeriodicalId":10775,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Health Reports","volume":"12 1","pages":"28"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12317922/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144768527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Open Air Quality Data Platforms for Environmental Health Research and Action.","authors":"Colleen Marciel Rosales, Jennifer R Bratburd, Sebastian Diez, Sara Duncan, Carl Malings, Pallavi Pant","doi":"10.1007/s40572-025-00487-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40572-025-00487-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":10775,"journal":{"name":"Current Environmental Health Reports","volume":"12 1","pages":"27"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12316772/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144759399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}