Asian Americans and disproportionate exposure to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants: A national study.

ABSTRACT: Studies have demonstrated disparate exposures to carcinogenic hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) in neighborhoods with high densities of Black and Hispanic residents in the US. Asians are the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the US, yet they have been underemphasized in previous studies of environmental health and injustice. This cross-sectional study investigated possible disparities in residential exposure to carcinogenic HAPs among Asian Americans, including Asian American subgroups in the US (including all 50 states and the District of Columbia, n = 71,208 US census tracts) using National Air Toxics Assessment and US Census data. In an unadjusted analysis, Chinese and Korean Americans experience the highest mean cancer risks from HAPs, followed by Blacks. The aggregated Asian catego

SUBMITTER: Grineski SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5523857 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature