Air pollution and health

B Brunekreef, ST Holgate - The lancet, 2002 - thelancet.com
The health effects of air pollution have been subject to intense study in recent years. Exposure
to pollutants such as airborne participate matter and ozone has been associated with …

A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for …

…, M Brauer, P Brooks, NG Bruce, B Brunekreef… - The lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Background Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs
prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by-disease …

[HTML][HTML] Estimates and 25-year trends of the global burden of disease attributable to ambient air pollution: an analysis of data from the Global Burden of Diseases …

…, J Frostad, K Estep, K Balakrishnan, B Brunekreef… - The lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Background Exposure to ambient air pollution increases morbidity and mortality, and is a
leading contributor to global disease burden. We explored spatial and temporal trends in …

Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter

…, J Coggins, Q Di, B Brunekreef… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Development of Land Use Regression Models for PM2.5, PM2.5 Absorbance, PM10 and PMcoarse in 20 European Study Areas; Results of the ESCAPE Project

…, D Vienneau, S Klot, K Wolf, B Brunekreef… - … science & technology, 2012 - ACS Publications
Land Use Regression (LUR) models have been used increasingly for modeling small-scale
spatial variation in air pollution concentrations and estimating individual exposure for …

[HTML][HTML] Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990 …

…, H Brenner, DM Broday, TS Brugha, B Brunekreef… - The lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2015 provides
an up-to-date synthesis of the evidence for risk factor exposure and the attributable burden …

Association between mortality and indicators of traffic-related air pollution in the Netherlands: a cohort study

G Hoek, B Brunekreef, S Goldbohm, P Fischer… - The lancet, 2002 - thelancet.com
Background Long-term exposure to participate matter air pollution has been associated with
increased cardiopulmonary mortality in the USA. We aimed to assess the relation between …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term air pollution exposure and cardio-respiratory mortality: a review

…, R Beelen, A Peters, B Ostro, B Brunekreef… - Environmental …, 2013 - Springer
Current day concentrations of ambient air pollution have been associated with a range of
adverse health effects, particularly mortality and morbidity due to cardiovascular and …

Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts: prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

…, P Fischer, MJ Nieuwenhuijsen, B Brunekreef… - The lancet …, 2013 - thelancet.com
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 …

Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality: an analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

…, M Katsoulis, A Trichopoulou, B Brunekreef… - The lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
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 (…