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Effects of Desert Dust and Sandstorms on Human Health: A Scoping Review
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Desert dust and sandstorms are recurring environmental phenomena that are reported to produce serious health risks worldwide. This scoping review was conducted to identify the most likely health effects of desert dust and sandstorms and the methods used to characterize desert dust exposure from the existing epidemiological literature. We systematically searched PubMed/MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Scopus to identify studies that reported the effects of desert dust and sandstorms on human health. Search terms referred to desert dust or sandstorm exposure, names of major deserts, and health outcomes. Health effects were cross‐tabulated with study design variables (e.g., epidemiological design and methods to quantify dust exposure), desert dust source, health outcomes and conditions. We identified 204 studies that met the inclusion criteria for the scoping review. More than half of the studies (52.9%) used a time‐series study design. However, we found a substantial variation in the methods used to identify and quantify desert dust exposure. The binary metric of dust exposure was more frequently used than the continuous metric for all desert dust source locations. Most studies (84.8%) reported significant associations between desert dust and adverse health effects, mainly for respiratory and cardiovascular mortality and morbidity causes. Although there is a large body of evidence on the health effects of desert dust and sandstorms, the existing epidemiological studies have significant limitations related to exposure measurement and statistical analysis that potentially contribute to inconsistencies in determining the effect of desert dust on human health.
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Mineral dust contributes to air pollution from particles with a diameter of 10 μm or less (PM10), exposure to which increases the risks of asthma, cardio-vascular disease, and premature death.
“Mineral dust contributes to air pollution from particles with a diameter of 10 µm or less (PM10), exposure to which increases the risks of asthma, cardio-vascular disease, and premature death.133–135”
From The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action (2024) · cites this paper as [135]
The Introduction says desert dust raises ambient particulate-matter concentrations by carrying mineral dust, and the Conclusions report considerable evidence of respiratory and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality associated with desert dust. The reviewed evidence supports the broad health-risk claim, but the passages do not specifically establish increased asthma risk or define PM10 by its 10 µm diameter; the review also notes inconsistencies in the health findings. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Lwin, K. S., Tobias, A., Chua, P. L., Yuan, L., Thawonmas, R., Ith, S., Htay, Z. W., Yu, L. S., Yamasaki, L., Roqué, M., Querol, X., Fussell, J. C., Nadeau, K. C., Stafoggia, M., Saliba, N. A., Sheng Ng, C. F., & Hashizume, M.
- Affiliations
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research Spanish Council for Scientific Research Barcelona Spain
- Department of Global Health Policy Graduate School of Medicine The University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan
- Nagasaki University (JP)
- Iberoamerican Cochrane Centre ‐ Institut d’Investigació Biomèdica Sant Pau (IIB SANT PAU) Barcelona Spain
- Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (ES)
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (GB)
- Stanford University (US)
- Regione Lazio (IT)
- American University of Beirut (LB)
- Corresponding author
- Hashizume, Masahiro
- ORCID
- Venue
- GeoHealth
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2023-03
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- e2022GH000728-e2022GH000728
- ISSN
- 2471-1403 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC9976568
- OpenAlex
- W4322735438
- Cited by
- 72
- References
- 34
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 5
- FWCI
- 1.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- GeoHealth (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- DIGITAL.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit
- National Institute for Health and Care Research (RDR03, MR/S0196669/1)
- Imperial College London (MR/S0196669/1, RDR03)
- MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health (RDR03, MR/S0196669/1)
- Medical Research Council (RDR03, MR/S0196669/1)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (20H03942, 19H03900, 19K10644, 13039)
- Japan Science and Technology Agency (JPMJSC20E4)
- Agencia Estatal de Investigación (501100011033, 10.13039/501100011033, 13039, .13039/501100011033, CEX2018-0 0 0794-S, 10.13039)
- NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (RDR03, MR/S0196669/1)
- Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (JPMJSC20E4)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Atmospheric aerosols and clouds
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Keywords
- desert dust, dust storms, human health effects, respiratory mortality, cardiovascular mortality, exposure metrics, time-series studies, epidemiological study design
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