The Missing Piece in Stroke Risk – Environmental Factors

Watch Maayan Yitshak-Sade, PhD, share her research on environmental risk factors for stroke, focusing on temperature, greenness, and air pollution. Dr. Yitshak-Sade is an environmental epidemiologist, and she investigates the complex health effects of exposure mixtures and their impacts on morbidity, mortality, and life expectancy across demographic and socioeconomic population groups in the United States. Watch Ismail Nabeel, MD, MPH, provide a clinical reflection following her presentation, discussing how insights from Dr. Yitshak-Sade’s research can inform patient care and advocacy for healthier environments. This discussion is part of a community webinar series organized by the Mount Sinai Institute for Exposomic Research. Through these talks, scientists share the latest research on how the environment affects health. We aim to translate our science to empower families and communities to understand the science and make the lifestyle changes that matter most. It is supported by the Mount Sinai Center for Health and Environment Across the Lifespan (HEALS), grant # P30ES023515 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, grant #UL1TR004419 from the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program, which is part of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). mountsinaiexposomics.org