Health effects of air pollution observed in cohort studies in Europe

被引:70
作者
Brunekreef, Bert [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Utrecht, Dept Environm Epidemiol, Inst Risk Assessment Sci, NL-3508 TD Utrecht, Netherlands
关键词
air pollution; mortality; asthma; allergy; cohort; traffic;
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10.1038/sj.jes.7500628
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
In recent years, several studies in Europe have associated within-city contrasts in air pollution with various health end points including mortality in cohort studies of adults, and respiratory morbidity in cross-sectional and cohort studies of children. Many of these studies have used NO2 contrasts as the primary exposure variable, which raises the issue of whether such associations are uniquely found for NO2 per se, or whether NO2 acts as a surrogate for a complex mixture of combustion pollutants primarily derived from vehicular traffic. Exposure assessment in these studies has been based on dispersion modelling, on data from routine monitoring networks, on stochastic models developed from dedicated spatially resolved monitoring, or some combination of these. The results of a number of recent European studies are discussed.
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