Relation between concentration of air pollution and cause-specific mortality: Four-year exposures to nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter pollutants in 470 neighborhoods in Oslo, Norway

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 165, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 435-443

  Næss, Øyvind ^a,b   Nafstad, Per ^a,b   Aamodt, Geir ^b   Claussen, Bjørgulf ^a   Rosland, Pål ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c Norwegian Public Road Administration ^*  (Norway)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cardiovascular diseases; Cause of death; Lung neoplasms; Mortality; Pulmonary disease, chronic obstructive

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; NEIGHBORHOOD; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EFFECT; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; DEATH; DEVICE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MORTALITY; NORWAY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NORWAY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; OSLO [NORWAY]; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 33847007325     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwk016     Document Type: Article

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