Air pollution and lung function in the European Community Respiratory Health Survey
Author(s) -
Thomas Götschi,
Jordi Sunyer,
S Chinn,
Roberto de Marco,
Bertil Forsberg,
James Gauderman,
Raquel GarcíaEsteban,
Joachim Heinrich,
Bénédicte Jacquemin,
Deborah Jarvis,
Michela Ponzio,
Simona Villani,
Nino Künzli
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/dyn136
Subject(s) - air pollution , confounding , environmental health , air quality index , vital capacity , lung function , health effect , pulmonary function testing , medicine , pollution , demography , environmental science , geography , lung , meteorology , diffusing capacity , biology , ecology , sociology
The association of long-term air pollution and lung function has not been studied across adult European multi-national populations before. The aim of this study was to determine the association between long-term urban background air pollution and lung function levels, as well as change in lung function among European adults.
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