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Thomas Sandström

Thomas Sandström

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Medicine

D-Index
88
Citations
25890
World Ranking
13253
National Ranking
248

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Nordic Medical Prize, SalusAnsvar/Ulf Nilsonnes Foundation for Medical Research

Overview

Thomas Sandström is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and specializes in research spanning medicine and environmental science. Their work focuses particularly on topics related to respiratory health, toxicology, and the impact of environmental factors on pulmonary diseases.

The main fields of study for Sandström include:

  • Medicine
  • Environmental Science

Within these fields, the scientist concentrates on several subfields such as:

  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
  • Physiology
  • Pollution
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

The core topics addressed in Sandström's research are:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Energy and Environment Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Respiratory and Cough-Related Research
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting

Some of the recent papers that represent this research include:

  • Brake dust exposure exacerbates inflammation and transiently compromises phagocytosis in macrophages, 2020, Metallomics
  • FEV1 decline in relation to blood eosinophils and neutrophils in a population-based asthma cohort, 2020, World Allergy Organization Journal
  • Acute Exposure to Diesel Exhaust Increases Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Humans, 2021, Journal of the American Heart Association
  • Plasma proteins elevated in severe asthma despite oral steroid use and unrelated to Type-2 inflammation, 2021, European Respiratory Journal
  • Stratification of asthma by lipidomic profiling of induced sputum supernatant, 2023, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sandström in these studies include:

  • Anders Blomberg
  • Ala Muala
  • Ian Mudway
  • Christoffer Boman
  • Jenny A. Bosson

The most common venues where Sandström's work has been published are:

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • European Respiratory Journal
  • Particle and Fibre Toxicology
  • Trials
  • Wellcome Open Research

In 2007, Sandström received the Nordic Medical Prize awarded by SalusAnsvar/Ulf Nilsonnes Foundation for Medical Research.

Best Publications

  • Acute inflammatory responses in the airways and peripheral blood after short-term exposure to diesel exhaust in healthy human volunteers.

    Sundeep Salvi;Anders Blomberg;Bertil Rudell;Frank Kelly

  • Adverse cardiovascular effects of air pollution

    Nicholas L Mills;Ken Donaldson;Paddy W Hadoke;Nicholas A Boon

  • Low dose inhaled budesonide and formoterol in mild persistent asthma: the OPTIMA randomized trial.

    Paul M. O'byrne;Peter J. Barnes;Roberto Rodriguez-Roisin;Eva Runnerstrom

  • Not 15 But 50% of smokers develop COPD?- : Report from the Obstructive Lung Disease in Northern Sweden Studies

    Bo Lundbäck;Anne Lindberg;Maj Lindström;Eva Rönmark

  • Ischemic and Thrombotic Effects of Dilute Diesel-Exhaust Inhalation in Men with Coronary Heart Disease

    Nicholas L. Mills;Håkan Törnqvist;Manuel C. Gonzalez;Elen Vink

  • Diesel exhaust inhalation causes vascular dysfunction and impaired endogenous fibrinolysis.

    Nicholas L. Mills;Håkan Törnqvist;Simon D. Robinson;Manuel Gonzalez

  • Health effects of diesel exhaust emissions.

    A Sydbom;Anders Blomberg;S Parnia;Nikolai Stenfors

  • Analysis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations with the dual bronchodilator QVA149 compared with glycopyrronium and tiotropium (SPARK): a randomised, double-blind, parallel-group study

    Jadwiga A Wedzicha;Marc Decramer;Joachim H Ficker;Dennis E Niewoehner

  • Clinical and inflammatory characteristics of the European U-BIOPRED adult severe asthma cohort

    Dominick E. Shaw;Ana R. Sousa;Stephen J. Fowler;Louise J. Fleming

  • A joint ERS/ATS policy statement: what constitutes an adverse health effect of air pollution? An analytical framework

    George D. Thurston;Howard Kipen;Isabella Annesi-Maesano;John Balmes;John Balmes

  • Persistent endothelial dysfunction in humans after diesel exhaust inhalation.

    Håkan Törnqvist;Nicholas L Mills;Manuel Gonzalez;Mark R Miller

  • Acute exposure to diesel exhaust increases IL-8 and GRO-alpha production in healthy human airways.

    Sundeep S. Salvi;Charlotta Nordenhall;Anders Blomberg;Bertil Rudell

  • Altered lung antioxidant status in patients with mild asthma.

    Frank J Kelly;Ian Mudway;Anders Blomberg;Anthony Frew

  • Recombinant humanized mAb-E25, an anti-IgE mAb, in birch pollen-induced seasonal allergic rhinitis.

    Ellinor Ädelroth;Sabina Rak;Tari Haahtela;Gunbjörn Aasand

  • Diesel exhaust inhalation increases thrombus formation in man

    Andrew J Lucking;Magnus Lundbäck;Nicholas L Mills;Dana Faratian

  • Different airway inflammatory responses in asthmatic and healthy humans exposed to diesel.

    Nikolai Stenfors;Charlotta Nordenhäll;S S Salvi;I Mudway

  • Airway antioxidant and inflammatory responses to diesel exhaust exposure in healthy humans

    Annelie Behndig;IS Mudway;JL Brown;Nikolai Stenfors

  • U-BIOPRED clinical adult asthma clusters linked to a subset of sputum omics

    Diane Lefaudeux;Bertrand De Meulder;Matthew J. Loza;Nancy Peffer

  • Effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age : a cohort study. Commentary

    Thomas Sandström;Bert Brunekreef;W. James Gauderman;Hita Vora

  • Response to Letter Regarding Article “Diesel Exhaust Inhalation Causes Vascular Dysfunction and Impaired Endogenous Fibrinolysis”

    Nicholas L. Mills;Simon D. Robinson;Nicholas A. Boon;David E. Newby

Frequent Co-Authors

Anders Blomberg
Anders Blomberg University of Gothenburg
Frank J. Kelly
Frank J. Kelly Imperial College London
Nicholas L. Mills
Nicholas L. Mills University of Edinburgh
David E. Newby
David E. Newby University of Edinburgh
Christoffer Boman
Christoffer Boman Umeå University
Ratko Djukanovic
Ratko Djukanovic University of Southampton
Ian Mudway
Ian Mudway Imperial College London
Norbert Krug
Norbert Krug Fraunhofer Society
Susan J. Wilson
Susan J. Wilson University of Southampton
Anthony J. Frew
Anthony J. Frew Royal Sussex County Hospital

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