Abstract

Due to the increasing importance of exposome in environmental epidemiology, feasibility and usefulness of an Environmental Data Management System (EDMS) using Open Data was evaluated. The EDMS includes data from 10 European cities (Celje (Slovenia), Łódź (Poland), Manchester (UK), Palermo (Italy), Paris (France), Porto (Portugal), Regensburg (Germany), Reus (Spain), Rijeka (Croatia), Thessaloniki (Greece)) about external non-specific and specific exposome factors at the city or country level (2017–2020). Findings showed that the highest values of life expectancy were in Reus females (86 years) and Palermo males (81 years). UK had the highest obesity rate (28%), Croatia the highest prescribed drug consumption (62%), Greece and Portugal the highest smoking rates (37%, 42%) and daily alcohol consumption (21%), respectively. The most polluted cities were Thessaloniki for PM10 (38 µg/m3), Łódź for PM2.5 (25 µg/m3), Porto for NO2 (62 µg/m3) and Rijeka for O3 (92 µg/m3). Thessaloniki had the highest grey space (98%) and Łódź the highest cumulative amount of pollen (39,041 p/m3). The highest daily noise levels ≥ 55 dB was in Reus (81% to traffic) and Regensburg (21% to railway). In drinking water, arsenic had the highest value in Thessaloniki (6.4 µg/L), boron in Celje (24 mg/L) and lead in Paris (46.7 µg/L). Portugal and Greece showed the highest pesticide residues in food (7%). In conclusion, utilizing open-access databases enables the translation of research findings into actionable strategies for public health interventions.

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Title
Assessing external exposome by implementing an Environmental Data Management System using Open Data
Author
Tagliaferro, Sofia 1 ; Maio, Sara 2 ; Pirona, Federico 2 ; Stanisci, Ilaria 2 ; Sarno, Giuseppe 2 ; Silvi, Patrizia 2 ; Kermenidou, Marianthi 3 ; Papaioannou, Nafsika 3 ; Perchard, Reena 4 ; Prpic, Igor 5 ; Polanska, Kinga 6 ; Jerzynska, Joanna 7 ; Ramos, Elisabete 8 ; Rovira, Joaquim 9 ; Belmonte, Jordina 10 ; Snoj Tratnik, Janja Snoj 11 ; Horvat, Milena 11 ; Kocman, David 11 ; Spiric, Zdravko 12 ; Zickella, Jacqueline 13 ; Fasola, Salvatore 14 ; La Grutta, Stefania 14 ; Malizia, Velia 14 ; Montalbano, Laura 15 ; Keijser, Bart 16 ; Kieboom, Jasper 16 ; Larsen, Martin 17 ; Schumacher, Marta 18 ; van den Broek, Tim 16 ; Villette, Rémy 17 ; Baiz, Nour 13 ; Barros, Henrique 19 ; Bartzis, John 20 ; Ahmad, Norhidayah Binti 21 ; Bocca, Beatrice 22 ; Brescianini, Sonia 22 ; Calamandrei, Gemma 22 ; Chatzimpaloglou, Anthoula 23 ; Dogliotti, Eugenia 22 ; Falnoga, Ingrid 11 ; Fonseca, Maria João 19 ; Gabriel, Catherine 3 ; Gamil, Amir 13 ; Gotti, Alberto 24 ; Hanke, Wojciech 6 ; Johnstone, Edward 4 ; Jurewicz, Joanna 6 ; Kabesch, Michael 25 ; Kalska-Sochacka, Katarzyna 6 ; Karakitsios, Spyros 24 ; Kumar, Vikas 18 ; Mazej, Darja 11 ; Mazzei, Filomena 22 ; Meccia, Ettore 22 ; Minghetti, Luisa 22 ; Nisticò, Lorenza 22 ; de Oliveira Fernandes, Eduardo 26 ; Pino, Anna 22 ; Sarigiannis, Dimosthenis 24 ; Stazi, Maria Antonietta 22 ; Szcześniak, Kamila 6 ; Tancredi, Patrizia 22 ; Silva, Gabriela Ventura 26 ; Viegi, Giovanni 2 ; Baldacci, Sandra 2 ; Annesi-Maesano, Isabella 13 

1  National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Clinical Physiology (IFC), Pulmonary Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Pisa, Italy (GRID:grid.5326.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 1940 4177); Department of Diagnostics and Public Health, University of Verona, Unit of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Verona, Italy (GRID:grid.5611.3) (ISNI:0000 0004 1763 1124) 
2  National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Clinical Physiology (IFC), Pulmonary Environmental Epidemiology Unit, Pisa, Italy (GRID:grid.5326.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 1940 4177) 
3  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece (GRID:grid.4793.9) (ISNI:0000 0001 0945 7005); HERACLES Research Center On the Exposome and Health, Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Innovation, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (GRID:grid.4793.9) (ISNI:0000 0001 0945 7005) 
4  Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, University of Manchester, Division of Developmental Biology and Medicine, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK (GRID:grid.5379.8) (ISNI:0000000121662407) 
5  University of Rijeka, Clinical Hospital Centre Rijeka, Department of Pediatrics, Rijeka, Croatia (GRID:grid.22939.33) (ISNI:0000 0001 2236 1630) 
6  Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine (NIOM), Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Hazards, Lodz, Poland (GRID:grid.418868.b) (ISNI:0000 0001 1156 5347) 
7  Copernicus Memorial Hospital, Medical University of Łódź (MUL), Department of Paediatrics and Allergy, Lodz, Poland (GRID:grid.8267.b) (ISNI:0000 0001 2165 3025) 
8  Laboratório Para a Investigação Integrativa E Translacionalem Saúde Populacional (ITR), Porto, Portugal (GRID:grid.8267.b); Faculdade de Medicina, Departamento de Ciências da Saúde Pública E Forenses E Educação Médica, Porto, Portugal (GRID:grid.5808.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1503 7226); Universidade Do Porto, EPIUnit, Instituto de Saúde Pública, Porto, Portugal (GRID:grid.5808.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1503 7226) 
9  Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Departament d’Enginyeria Quimica, Tarragona, Spain (GRID:grid.410367.7) (ISNI:0000 0001 2284 9230); IISPV, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Laboratory of Toxicology and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, Reus, Spain (GRID:grid.410367.7) (ISNI:0000 0001 2284 9230) 
10  Autonomous University of Barcelona, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona, Spain (GRID:grid.7080.f) (ISNI:0000 0001 2296 0625); Autonomous University of Barcelona, Department of Animal Biology, Plant Biology and Ecology, Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Barcelona, Spain (GRID:grid.7080.f) (ISNI:0000 0001 2296 0625) 
11  Jožef Stefan Institute, Department of Environmental Sciences, Ljubljana, Slovenia (GRID:grid.445211.7) 
12  Green Infrastructure Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia (GRID:grid.445211.7) 
13  Dept of Pneumology, Allergology and Thoracic Oncology, CHU, Montpellier, France (GRID:grid.157868.5) (ISNI:0000 0000 9961 060X); IDESP INSERM and Univ Mont, Montpellier, France (GRID:grid.7429.8) (ISNI:0000000121866389) 
14  National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Translational Pharmacology (IFT), Palermo, Italy (GRID:grid.5326.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 1940 4177) 
15  National Research Council (CNR), Institute for Research and Innovation in Biomedicine (IRIB), Palermo, Italy (GRID:grid.5326.2) (ISNI:0000 0001 1940 4177) 
16  Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Leiden, The Netherlands (GRID:grid.4858.1) (ISNI:0000 0001 0208 7216) 
17  Sorbonne Université, INSERM U1135, Centre d’Immunologie Et Des Maladies Infectieuses (CIMI-Paris), Paris, France (GRID:grid.463810.8) 
18  Universitat Rovira I Virgili, Environmental Engineering Laboratory, Tarragona, Spain (GRID:grid.410367.7) (ISNI:0000 0001 2284 9230) 
19  University of Porto, Institute of Public Health, Porto, Portugal (GRID:grid.5808.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1503 7226) 
20  University of Western Macedonia (UOWM), Sialvera and Bakola, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kozani, Greece (GRID:grid.184212.c) (ISNI:0000 0000 9364 8877) 
21  University of Manchester, Centre for Epidemiology, Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, Manchester, UK (GRID:grid.5379.8) (ISNI:0000 0001 2166 2407) 
22  Italian National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy (GRID:grid.416651.1) (ISNI:0000 0000 9120 6856) 
23  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Chemistry, Thessaloniki, Greece (GRID:grid.4793.9) (ISNI:0000 0001 0945 7005) 
24  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Engineering, Thessaloniki, Greece (GRID:grid.4793.9) (ISNI:0000 0001 0945 7005) 
25  University Clinic Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany (GRID:grid.418868.b) 
26  University of Porto, Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Porto, Portugal (GRID:grid.5808.5) (ISNI:0000 0001 1503 7226) 
Pages
17142
Publication year
2024
Publication date
2024
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
e-ISSN
20452322
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-62924-0
ProQuest document ID
3085059867
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