Authors
Rob Beelen, Gerard Hoek, Ole Raaschou-Nielsen, Massimo Stafoggia, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen, Gudrun Weinmayr, Barbara Hoffmann, Kathrin Wolf, Evangelia Samoli, Paul H Fischer, Mark J Nieuwenhuijsen, Wei W Xun, Klea Katsouyanni, Konstantina Dimakopoulou, Alessandro Marcon, Erkki Vartiainen, Timo Lanki, Tarja Yli-Tuomi, Bente Oftedal, Per E Schwarze, Per Nafstad, Ulf De Faire, Nancy L Pedersen, Claes-Göran Östenson, Laura Fratiglioni, Johanna Penell, Michal Korek, Göran Pershagen, Kirsten Thorup Eriksen, Kim Overvad, Mette Sørensen, Marloes Eeftens, Petra H Peeters, Kees Meliefste, Meng Wang, H Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, Dorothea Sugiri, Ursula Krämer, Joachim Heinrich, Kees De Hoogh, Timothy Key, Annette Peters, Regina Hampel, Hans Concin, Gabriele Nagel, Andrea Jaensch, Alex Ineichen, Ming-Yi Tsai, Emmanuel Schaffner, Nicole M Probst-Hensch, Christian Schindler, Martina S Ragettli, Alice Vilier, Francoise Clavel-Chapelon, Christophe Declercq, Fulvio Ricceri, Carlotta Sacerdote, Claudia Galassi, Enrica Migliore, Andrea Ranzi, Giulia Cesaroni, Chiara Badaloni, Francesco Forastiere, Michail Katsoulis, Antonia Trichopoulou, Menno Keuken, Aleksandra Jedynska, Ingeborg M Kooter, Jaakko Kukkonen, Ranjeet S Sokhi, Paolo Vineis, Bert Brunekreef
Publication date
2015/6
Source
Environmental health perspectives
Volume
123
Issue
6
Pages
525-533
Publisher
NLM-Export
Description
Background
Studies have shown associations between mortality and long-term exposure to particulate matter air pollution. Few cohort studies have estimated the effects of the elemental composition of particulate matter on mortality.
Objectives
Our aim was to study the association between natural-cause mortality and long-term exposure to elemental components of particulate matter.
Methods
Mortality and confounder data from 19 European cohort studies were used. Residential exposure to eight a priori–selected components of particulate matter (PM) was characterized following a strictly standardized protocol. Annual average concentrations of copper, iron, potassium, nickel, sulfur, silicon, vanadium, and zinc within PM size fractions ≤ 2.5 μm (PM2.5) and ≤ 10 μm (PM10) were estimated using land-use regression models. Cohort-specific statistical analyses of the associations between mortality and air pollution …
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R Beelen, G Hoek, O Raaschou-Nielsen, M Stafoggia… - Environmental health perspectives, 2015