Long-term ambient residential traffic–related exposures and measurement error–adjusted risk of incident lung cancer in the Netherlands Cohort Study on Diet and Cancer

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 860-866

  Hart, Jaime E ^a,b   Spiegelman, Donna ^b   Beelen, Rob ^c   Hoek, Gerard ^c   Brunekreef, Bert ^c,d   Schouten, Leo J ^e   van den Brandt, Piet ^e,f  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; SMOKING; TRAFFIC; VALIDATION PROCESS; ADVERSE EVENT; AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; TIME FACTOR; TOXICITY;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK; SMOKE; TIME FACTORS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84940745477     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408762     Document Type: Article

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