{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Li L"],"funding":["U.S. Environmental Protection Agency","Harvard Climate Change Solution Fund","NIMHD NIH HHS","US Environmental Protection Agency | National Center For Environmental Assessment","U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities"],"pagination":["177-185"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC9004666"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["7(2)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Little is known about whether exposure to unconventional oil and gas development is associated with higher mortality risks in the elderly and whether related air pollutants are exposure pathways. We studied a cohort of 15,198,496 Medicare beneficiaries (136,215,059 person-years) in all major U.S. unconventional exploration regions from 2001 to 2015. We gathered data from records of more than 2.5 million oil and gas wells. For each beneficiary's ZIP code of residence and year in the cohort, we calculated a proximity-based and a downwind-based pollutant exposure. We analyzed the data using two methods: Cox proportional hazards model and Difference-in-Differences. We found evidence of statistically significant higher mortality risk associated with living in proximity to and downwind of unconv"],"journal":["Nature energy"],"pubmed_title":["Exposure to Unconventional Oil and Gas Development and All-cause Mortality in Medicare Beneficiaries."],"pmcid":["PMC9004666"],"funding_grant_id":["R01 MD012769","RD-835872"],"pubmed_authors":["Schwartz JD","Bargagli-Stoffi FJ","Blomberg AJ","Lawrence J","Dominici F","Coull BA","Koutrakis P","Spengler JD","Li L","Wei Y"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Exposure to Unconventional Oil and Gas Development and All-cause Mortality in Medicare Beneficiaries.","description":"Little is known about whether exposure to unconventional oil and gas development is associated with higher mortality risks in the elderly and whether related air pollutants are exposure pathways. We studied a cohort of 15,198,496 Medicare beneficiaries (136,215,059 person-years) in all major U.S. unconventional exploration regions from 2001 to 2015. We gathered data from records of more than 2.5 million oil and gas wells. For each beneficiary's ZIP code of residence and year in the cohort, we calculated a proximity-based and a downwind-based pollutant exposure. We analyzed the data using two methods: Cox proportional hazards model and Difference-in-Differences. We found evidence of statistically significant higher mortality risk associated with living in proximity to and downwind of unconv","dates":{"release":"2022-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2022 Feb","modification":"2025-04-04T10:45:24.627Z","creation":"2025-04-04T10:45:24.627Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC9004666","cross_references":{"pubmed":["35425643"],"doi":["10.1038/s41560-021-00970-y"]}}