Effects of long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution on respiratory and cardiovascular mortality in the Netherlands
Subtitle: the NLCS-AIR study
By: Bert Brunekreef ... [et al.].
Contributors: Health Effects Institute
Series: Research report -- no. 139; Research report (Health Effects Institute) -- no. 139.
Publisher: Health Effects Institute
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: Mortality; Cardiovascular System; Immunology; Respiratory System; Vehicle Emissions; Adverse effects; Air Pollution; Environmental Exposure; Diesel motor exhaust gas; Toxicology; Automobiles; Motors (Diesel); Exhaust gas; Air; Pollution; Human beings; Effect of environment on
Other titles: Long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and mortality
Description: Research Report 139 describes a study in the Netherlands using data from the ongoing Netherlands Cohort Study (NLCS) on diet and cancer. The study is one of the first to systematically assess longer term exposure and mortality in a well characterized European population; it followed a pilot study of 5000 adults randomly selected from the NLCS cohort conducted by the same team of investigators. For the current study, Dr. Bert Brunekreef and colleagues refined the methods of exposure assessment, included more traffic data, and extended the mortality analyses to the full NLCS cohort (~120,000 individuals) for a longer follow-up period.
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"March 2009."

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