Lung cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality associated with ambient air pollution and cigarette smoke: Shape of the exposure-response relationships

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1616-1621

  Arden Pope III, C ^a   Burnett, Richard T ^b   Turner, Michelle C ^c   Cohen, Aaron ^d   Krewski, Daniel ^c   Jerrett, Michael ^e   Gapstur, Susan M ^f   Thun, Michael J ^f  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d Health Effects Institute   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cardiovascular disease; Lung cancer; Mortality; Particulate matter; Smoking

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80455173442     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103639     Document Type: Article

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