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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hoek, Gerard
• Krishnan, Ranjini M
• Beelen, Rob
• Peters, Annette
• Ostro, Bart
• Brunekreef, Bert
• Kaufman, Joel D

Titel

Long-term air pollution exposure and cardio- respiratory mortality: a review

Ist Teil von

• Environmental health, 2013-05, Vol.12 (1), p.43-43, Article 43

Ort / Verlag

England: BioMed Central Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Current day concentrations of ambient air pollution have been associated with a range of adverse health effects, particularly mortality and morbidity due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. In this review, we summarize the evidence from epidemiological studies on long-term exposure to fine and coarse particles, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and elemental carbon on mortality from all-causes, cardiovascular disease and respiratory disease. We also summarize the findings on potentially susceptible subgroups across studies. We identified studies through a search in the databases Medline and Scopus and previous reviews until January 2013 and performed a meta-analysis if more than five studies were available for the same exposure metric.