Long-term exposure to NO2 and PM10 and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a prospective cohort of women

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 179-186

  Heinrich, Joachim ^a   Thiering, Elisabeth ^a   Rzehak, Peter ^a,b   Krämer, Ursula ^c   Hochadel, Matthias ^a,d   Rauchfuss, Knut M ^e   Gehring, Ulrike ^a,f   Wichmann, H Erich ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c IUF LEIBNIZ RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e Toxicology Epidemiology   (Germany)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GERMANY; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84874651154     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100876     Document Type: Article

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