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Objective  Odor exposure is an environmental stressor that is responsible of many citizens complains about air pollution in non-urban areas. However, information about the exposure-response relation is scarce. One of the main challenges is to identify a measurable compound that can be related with odor annoyance responses. We investigated the association between regional and temporal variation of ammonia (NH 3 ) concentrations in five Danish non-urban regions and environmental odor annoyance as perceived by the local residents.    Methods  A cross-sectional study where NH 3  concentration was obtained from the national air quality monitoring program and from emission-dispersion modelling, and odor pollution perception from questionnaires. The exposure-response model was a sigmoid model. Linear regression analyses were used to estimate the model constants after equation transformations. The model was validated using leave-one-out cross validation (LOOCV) statistical method.    Results  About 45% of the respondents were annoyed by odor pollution at their residential areas. The perceived odor was characterized by all respondents as animal waste odor. The exposure-annoyance sigmoid model showed that the prevalence of odor annoyance was significantly associated with NH 3  concentrations (measured and estimated) at the local air quality monitoring stations (p < 0.01,R 2  = 0.99; and p < 0.05,R 2  = 0.93; respectively). Prediction errors were below 5.1% and 20% respectively. The seasonal pattern of odor perception was associated with the seasonal variation in NH 3  concentrations (p < 0.001, adjusted R 2  = 0.68).    Conclusion  The results suggest that atmospheric NH 3  levels at local air quality stations could be used as indicators of prevalence of odor annoyance in non-urban residential communities.

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Perceived annoyance from environmental odors and association with atmospheric ammonia levels in non-urban residential communities: a cross-sectional study