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Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva

Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva

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Medicine

D-Index
102
Citations
48304
World Ranking
7550
National Ranking
15

Overview

Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva is affiliated with the Universidade de São Paulo in Brazil. Their research spans fields predominantly in Environmental Science and Medicine, with significant contributions in Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, Infectious Diseases, General Health Professions, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Oncology.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics including:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
  • COVID-19 and healthcare impacts
  • SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
  • Health disparities and outcomes

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Environmental Pollution
  • Scientific Reports
  • Environment International
  • Environmental Epidemiology

Among the recent papers associated with or relevant to their research are:

  • The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • SARS-CoV-2-triggered neutrophil extracellular traps mediate COVID-19 pathology, 2020, The Journal of Experimental Medicine
  • Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study, 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • Pathological evidence of pulmonary thrombotic phenomena in severe COVID-19, 2020, Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • Pulmonary and systemic involvement in COVID-19 patients assessed with ultrasound-guided minimally invasive autopsy, 2020, Histopathology

Frequent coauthors in their scientific network include:

  • Micheline de Sousa Zanotti Stagliorio Coêlho
  • Yuming Guo
  • Shanshan Li
  • Marisa Dolhnikoff
  • Amaro Nunes Duarte-Neto

Best Publications

  • American thoracic society/European respiratory society international multidisciplinary consensus classification of the idiopathic interstitial pneumonias

    William D. Travis;Talmadge E. King;Eric D. Bateman;David A. Lynch

  • Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Masahiro Hashizume;Eric Lavigne

  • Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in 652 Cities

    Cong Liu;Renjie Chen;Francesco Sera;Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera

  • Outdoor Particulate Matter Exposure and Lung Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

    Ghassan B. Hamra;Neela Guha;Aaron Cohen;Francine Laden

  • SARS-CoV-2-triggered neutrophil extracellular traps mediate COVID-19 pathology.

    Flavio Protasio Veras;Marjorie Cornejo Pontelli;Camila Meirelles Silva;Juliana E Toller-Kawahisa

  • Projections of temperature-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Yuming Guo;Francesco Sera;Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera

  • Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study

    Qi Zhao;Qi Zhao;Yuming Guo;Tingting Ye;Antonio Gasparrini

  • Lung Pathology in Fatal Novel Human Influenza A (H1N1) Infection

    Thais Mauad;Ludhmila A. Hajjar;Giovanna D. Callegari;Luiz F. F. da Silva

  • Global variation in the effects of ambient temperature on mortality: a systematic evaluation.

    Yuming Guo;Antonio Gasparrini;Ben Armstrong;Shanshan Li

  • Heat Wave and Mortality: A Multicountry, Multicommunity Study.

    Yuming Guo;Yuming Guo;Antonio Gasparrini;Ben G. Armstrong;Benjawan Tawatsupa

  • Air Pollution and Mortality in Elderly People: A Time-Series Study in Sao Paulo, Brazil

    P H Saldiva;C A Pope rd;J Schwartz;D W Dockery

  • Pathological evidence of pulmonary thrombotic phenomena in severe COVID-19.

    Marisa Dolhnikoff;Amaro Nunes Duarte-Neto;Renata Aparecida de Almeida Monteiro;Luiz Fernando Ferraz da Silva

  • The impact of sugar cane-burning emissions on the respiratory system of children and the elderly.

    José Eduardo Delfini Cançado;Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva;Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira;Luciene B L S Lara

  • Quantifying excess deaths related to heatwaves under climate change scenarios: A multicountry time series modelling study

    Yuming Guo;Antonio Gasparrini;Shanshan Li;Francesco Sera

  • Association between Air Pollution and Mortality Due to Respiratory Diseases in Children in São Paulo, Brazil: A Preliminary Report

    P.H.N. Saldiva;A.J.F.C. Lichtenfels;P.S.O. Paiva;I.A. Barone

  • Association between air pollution and intrauterine mortality in São Paulo, Brazil.

    Luiz A. A. Pereira;Dana Loomis;Gleice M. S. Conceicao;Alfesio L. F. Braga

  • Lung Inflammation Induced by Concentrated Ambient Air Particles Is Related to Particle Composition

    Paulo H. N. Saldiva;Robert W. Clarke;Brent A. Coull;Rebecca C. Stearns

  • Low dose of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) can induce acute oxidative stress, inflammation and pulmonary impairment in healthy mice.

    D R Riva;C B Magalhães;A A Lopes;T Lanças

  • Health effects of air pollution exposure on children and adolescents in São Paulo, Brazil

    Alfesio L.F. Braga;Paulo H.N. Saldiva;Paulo H.N. Saldiva;Luiz A.A. Pereira;Joaquim J.C. Menezes

  • Air pollution from biomass burning and asthma hospital admissions in a sugar cane plantation area in Brazil

    Marcos Abdo Arbex;Lourdes Conceição Martins;Regiani Carvalho de Oliveira;Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuming Guo
Yuming Guo Monash University
Shilu Tong
Shilu Tong Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Eric Lavigne
Eric Lavigne University of Ottawa
Antonella Zanobetti
Antonella Zanobetti Harvard University
Masahiro Hashizume
Masahiro Hashizume University of Tokyo
Yasushi Honda
Yasushi Honda University of Tsukuba
Ben Armstrong
Ben Armstrong London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Ho Kim
Ho Kim Seoul National University
Joel Schwartz
Joel Schwartz Harvard University

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