Background: Particulate matter (PM) in outdoor air pollution was recently designated a
Group I carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). This …

Air pollution has wide-ranging and deleterious effects on human health and is a major issue
for the global community. The Global Burden of Disease study has described the worldwide …

Objective Our goal was to quantify the short-term effects of particulate matter with
aerodynamic diameter ≤ 10 μm (PM 10 ) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) on respiratory health of …

Objective To determine the risk of lung cancer associated with exposure at home to the
radioactive disintegration products of naturally occurring radon gas Design Collaborative …

Background Few studies on long-term exposure to air pollution and mortality have been
reported from Europe. Within the multicentre European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (…

… We have replaced the two forms of f(z) that we used in the analysis of the subject level within
cohort data by a single mathematical form log(1 + z/α) defined by an additional parameter α…

Background Ambient air pollution is suspected to cause lung cancer. We aimed to assess
the association between long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and lung cancer …

Objectives To study the effect of long term exposure to airborne pollutants on the incidence
of acute coronary events in 11 cohorts participating in the European Study of Cohorts for Air …

The APHEA 2 project investigated short-term health effects of particles in eight European cities.
In each city associations between particles with an aerodynamic diameter of less than 10 …

Background Ambient air pollution has been associated with restricted fetal growth, which is
linked with adverse respiratory health in childhood. We assessed the effect of maternal …