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Benoit Nemery

Benoit Nemery

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Medicine

D-Index
86
Citations
26701
World Ranking
14140
National Ranking
177

Overview

Benoit Nemery is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Pollution, and Safety Research.

The scientist's work covers a range of main research topics, including:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Occupational exposure and asthma
  • Occupational and environmental lung diseases
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
  • Academic integrity and plagiarism
  • Energy and Environment Impacts

Nemery's recent papers demonstrate a focus on environmental health and the effects of pollution and green space on public health. Some of the notable recent publications include:

  • Sustainable minerals and metals for a low-carbon future, 2020, Science
  • Residing in urban areas with higher green space is associated with lower mortality risk: A census-based cohort study with ten years of follow-up, 2021, Environment International
  • Metal mining and birth defects: a case-control study in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2020, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Acute and chronic exposure to air pollution in relation with incidence, prevalence, severity and mortality of COVID-19: a rapid systematic review, 2021, Environmental Health
  • Residential green space, air pollution, socioeconomic deprivation and cardiovascular medication sales in Belgium: A nationwide ecological study, 2020, The Science of The Total Environment

The venues where Nemery frequently publishes indicate a sustained focus on environmental and occupational health, including:

  • Environmental Health
  • Environmental Research
  • Occupational Medicine
  • Environment International
  • Safety and Health at Work

Frequent collaborators in Nemery's research include Paul Musa Obadia, Célestin Banza Lubaba Nkulu, Tony Kayembe-Kitenge, Steven Ronsmans, and Tim S. Nawrot. These coauthors are involved in multiple joint publications, reflecting ongoing research partnerships.

Best Publications

  • Passage of inhaled particles into the blood circulation in humans.

    Abderrahim Nemmar;Peter Hoet;B Vanquickenborne;D Dinsdale

  • Loss of HIF-2α and inhibition of VEGF impair fetal lung maturation, whereas treatment with VEGF prevents fatal respiratory distress in premature mice

    Veerle Compernolle;Koen Brusselmans;Till Acker;Peter Hoet

  • Passage of intratracheally instilled ultrafine particles from the lung into the systemic circulation in hamster.

    Abderrahim Nemmar;H Vanbilloen;Marc Hoylaerts;Peter Hoet

  • Public health importance of triggers of myocardial infarction: a comparative risk assessment

    Tim S Nawrot;Laura Perez;Nino Künzli;Elke Munters

  • Ultrafine particles affect experimental thrombosis in an in vivo hamster model.

    Abderrahim Nemmar;Marc F. Hoylaerts;Peter H. M. Hoet;David Dinsdale

  • Possible mechanisms of the cardiovascular effects of inhaled particles: systemic translocation and prothrombotic effects.

    Abderrahim Nemmar;Marc F Hoylaerts;Peter H M Hoet;Benoit Nemery

  • Acute toxicity and prothrombotic effects of quantum dots: impact of surface charge.

    Jorina Geys;Abderrahim Nemmar;Erik Verbeken;Erik Smolders

  • Diesel Exhaust Particles in Lung Acutely Enhance Experimental Peripheral Thrombosis

    Abderrahim Nemmar;Peter H.M. Hoet;David Dinsdale;Jozef Vermylen

  • Noninvasive and invasive pulmonary function in mouse models of obstructive and restrictive respiratory diseases.

    Jeroen A. J. Vanoirbeek;Manuela Rinaldi;Vanessa De Vooght;Steven Haenen

  • High human exposure to cobalt and other metals in Katanga, a mining area of the Democratic Republic of Congo

    Célestin Lubaba Nkulu Banza;Tim S. Nawrot;Vincent Haufroid;Sophie Decrée;Sophie Decrée

  • Nicotine activates the chemosensory cation channel TRPA1

    Karel Talavera;Maarten Gees;Yuji Karashima;Víctor M Meseguer

  • Size effect of intratracheally instilled particles on pulmonary inflammation and vascular thrombosis

    Abderrahim Nemmar;Marc F Hoylaerts;Peter H.M Hoet;Jozef Vermylen

  • Expert elicitation on ultrafine particles: likelihood of health effects and causal pathways

    Anne B Knol;Jeroen J de Hartog;Hanna Boogaard;Pauline Slottje

  • Genotoxic effects of carbon black particles, diesel exhaust particles, and urban air particulates and their extracts on a human alveolar epithelial cell line (A549) and a human monocytic cell line (THP-1).

    A. Don Porto Carero;P.H.M. Hoet;L. Verschaeve;G. Schoeters

  • Subclinical responses in healthy cyclists briefly exposed to traffic-related air pollution: an intervention study

    Lotte Jacobs;Tim S Nawrot;Tim S Nawrot;Bas de Geus;Romain Meeusen

  • Stronger associations between daily mortality and fine particulate air pollution in summer than in winter: evidence from a heavily polluted region in western Europe

    T S Nawrot;R Torfs;F Fierens;S De Henauw

  • Concentration response functions for ultrafine particles and all-cause mortality and hospital admissions: results of a European expert panel elicitation.

    Gerard Hoek;Hanna Boogaard;Anne Knol;Jeroen de Hartog

  • Health impact of nanomaterials

    Peter H M Hoet;Abderrahim Nemmar;Benoit Nemery

  • Long-Term Exposure to Particulate Matter Air Pollution Is a Risk Factor for Stroke: Meta-Analytical Evidence

    Hans Scheers;Lotte Jacobs;Lidia Casas;Benoit Nemery

  • Co-cultures of multiple cell types mimic pulmonary cell communication in response to urban PM10

    E Alfaro-Moreno;Tim Nawrot;Bart Vanaudenaerde;Marc Hoylaerts

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Hoet
Peter Hoet KU Leuven
Tim S. Nawrot
Tim S. Nawrot Hasselt University
David Dinsdale
David Dinsdale University of Leicester
Jan Ceuppens
Jan Ceuppens KU Leuven
Sven Seys
Sven Seys KU Leuven
Dominique Lison
Dominique Lison Université Catholique de Louvain
Susan M. Tarlo
Susan M. Tarlo University of Toronto

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