Publication date: Aug 01, 2026
Exposure to ambient airborne particulate matter (PM) has been associated with almost 9 million premature deaths per year worldwide. Ports are essential infrastructure for trade and transport, with over 80% of the world’s international trade volume travelling by sea, yet there is little understanding of the potential health effects of PM from ships. Here, we studied the elemental and toxicological characteristics of size-fractionated PM collected at different areas of a busy European mixed-use port. We found that unregulated ultrafine PM, a PM size fraction
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | inflammation |
| disease | MESH | viral infection |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Vanadium |
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