Assessing Adverse Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Low Levels of Ambient Air Pollution: Phase 1.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This report provides a summary of major findings and key conclusions supported by a Health Effects Institute grant aimed at "Assessing Adverse Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Low Levels of Ambient Pollution." Our study was designed to advance four critical areas of inquiry and methods development.

Methods

First, our work focused on predicting short- and long-term exposures to ambient PM_2.5 mass (particulate matter ≤ 2.5μm in aerodynamic diameter) and ozone (O₃) at high spatial resolution (1 km × 1 km) for the continental United States during the period 2000-2012 and linking these predictions to health data. Second, we developed new causal inference methods for exposure-response (ER) that account for exposure error and adjust for mea

SUBMITTER: Dominici F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7300216 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature