Emulating causal dose-response relations between air pollutants and mortality in the Medicare population

Abstract Background Fine particulate matter (PM2.5), ozone (O3), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are major air pollutants that pose considerable threats to human health. However, what has been mostly missing in air pollution epidemiology is causal dose-response (D-R) relations between those exposures and...

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Main Authors: Yaguang Wei, Mahdieh Danesh Yazdi, Qian Di, Weeberb J. Requia, Francesca Dominici, Antonella Zanobetti, Joel Schwartz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-05-01
Series:Environmental Health
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-021-00742-x