A Perfect Storm of Pollutants: Environmental Mixtures in the Pathogenesis of Atherosclerosis
Francesca Gorini, Mariangela Palazzo, Ludovica Simonini, Alessandro Tonacci, Antonio Rizza, Haotian Wu, Fabrizio Minichilli, Andrea Borghini · 2026
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Francesca Gorini and co-authors present a 2026 review of how mixed pollution drives artery disease. People never meet one pollutant at a time. Air particles, toxic metals, farm sprays, and hormone-mimicking chemicals arrive as blends. The review joins proof from 37 studies on how such blends act inside the body, where single-agent studies can mislead.
Blend effects can add up, amplify, or cancel, in ways single tests miss. The paths converge on cell stress, vessel wall harm, and long inflammation. Fat handling also goes off track, and immune cells get drawn into the vessel wall. Gene marks shift too, which may lock in risk for years. The authors urge risk rules built on blends, not lone chemicals.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Francesca Gorini, Mariangela Palazzo, Ludovica Simonini, Alessandro Tonacci, Antonio Rizza, Haotian Wu, Fabrizio Minichilli, Andrea Borghini |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 76 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |