Association between mortality and indicators of traffic-related air pollution in the Netherlands: a cohort study
BACKGROUND: Long-term exposure to particulate matter air pollution has been associated with increased cardiopulmonary mortality in the USA. We aimed to assess the relation between traffic-related air pollution and mortality in participants of the Netherlands Cohort study on Diet and Cancer (NLCS), an ongoing study. METHODS: We investigated a random sample of 5000 people from the full cohort of the NLCS study (age 55-69 years) from 1986 to 1994. Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollutants (black smoke and nitrogen dioxide) was estimated for the 1986 home address. Exposure was character... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2002 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Hoek , G , Brunekreef , B , Goldbohm , R A , Fischer , P & van den Brandt , P A 2002 , ' Association between mortality and indicators of traffic-related air pollution in the Netherlands: a cohort study ' , Lancet , vol. 360 , no. 9341 , pp. 1203-1209 . https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11280-3 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27206814 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl/en/publications/c3a9eead-e0cf-4870-9e80-8107c4de8a51 |