Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) is a major global health concern.
Quantitative estimates of attributable mortality are based on disease-specific hazard ratio models …

Background Although many studies have linked elevations in tropospheric ozone to adverse
health outcomes, the effect of long-term exposure to ozone on air pollution–related mortality …

ContextAssociations have been found between day-to-day particulate air pollution and
increased risk of various adverse health outcomes, including cardiopulmonary mortality. However…

Importance Understanding the major health problems in the United States and how they are
changing over time is critical for informing national health policy. Objectives To measure the …

Background— Epidemiologic studies have linked long-term exposure to fine particulate
matter air pollution (PM) to broad cause-of-death mortality. Associations with specific …

Importance Cancer is among the leading causes of death worldwide. Current estimates of
cancer burden in individual countries and regions are necessary to inform local cancer control …

… George Thurston was supported in part by center grant ES 00260 from the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences. The remaining authors report no conflicts of interest. …

In this paper, source apportionment techniques are employed to identify and quantify the major
particle pollution source classes affecting a monitoring site in metropolitan Boston, MA. A …

Genetic deletion studies have shown that haploinsufficiency of Delta-like ligand (Dll) 4, a
transmembrane ligand for the Notch family of receptors, results in major vascular defects and …

Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma are common
diseases with a heterogeneous distribution worldwide. Here, we present methods and disease …