Author Description

"Environmental risk factors - noise, air pollution, chemical agents, and ultraviolet radiation - impact human health by contributing to the onset and progression of non-communicable diseases. Accordingly, there is need for preclinical and clinical studies and comprehensible summary of major findings. This book is a state-of-the-art summary of these myriad severe life stress. The chapters on the different pollutants focus on disease mechanisms (cardiovascular, neurological and metabolic disorders) and on oxidative stress and inflammation. We 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"--