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

ABSTRACT: 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 that incorporate risk information from multiple PM_2.5 sources (outdoor and indoor air pollution from use of solid fuels and secondhand and active smoking), requiring assumptions about equivalent exposure and toxicity. We relax these contentious assumptions by constructing a PM_2.5-mortality hazard ratio function based only on cohort studies of outdoor air pollution that covers the global exposure range. We modeled the shape of the association between PM_2.5 and nonaccidental mortality using data from 41 cohorts from 16 countries-the Global Exposure Mortality Model (G

SUBMITTER: Burnett R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6156628 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature