Air pollution and mortality in seven million adults: The dutch environmental longitudinal study (DUELS)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 697-704

  Fischer, Paul H ^a   Marra, Marten ^a   Ameling, Caroline B ^a   Hoek, Gerard ^b   Beelen, Rob ^a,b   De Hoogh, Kees ^c,d,e   Breugelmans, Oscar ^a   Kruize, Hanneke ^a   Janssen, Nicole A H ^a   Houthuijs, Danny ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; ICD-10; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TOXICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES;

EID: 84936128754     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408254     Document Type: Article

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