Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter

The estimates from this study are severalfold larger than previous calculations, suggesting that outdoor particulate air pollution is an even more important population health risk factor than previously thought.

Author Name(s):

Burnett, Richard Chen, Hong Szyszkowicz, Mieczysław Fann, Neal Hubbell, Bryan Pope, C. Arden Apte, Joshua S. Brauer, Michael Cohen, Aaron Weichenthal, Scott Coggins, Jay Di, Qian Brunekreef, Bert Frostad, Joseph Lim, Stephen S. Kan, Haidong Walker, Katherine D. Thurston, George D. Hayes, Richard B. Lim, Chris C. Turner, Michelle C. Jerrett, Michael Krewski, Daniel Gapstur, Susan M. Diver, W. Ryan Ostro, Bart Goldberg, Debbie Crouse, Daniel L. Martin, Randall V. Peters, Paul Pinault, Lauren Tjepkema, Michael van Donkelaar, Aaron Villeneuve, Paul J. Miller, Anthony B. Yin, Peng Zhou, Maigeng Wang, Lijun Janssen, Nicole A. H. Marra, Marten Atkinson, Richard W. Tsang, Hilda Quoc Thach, Thuan Cannon, John B. Allen, Ryan T. Hart, Jaime E. Laden, Francine Cesaroni, Giulia Forastiere, Francesco Weinmayr, Gudrun Jaensch, Andrea Nagel, Gabriele Concin, Hans Spadaro, Joseph V.

Citation:

Burnett, R., et al. 2018. Global estimates of mortality associated with long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(38): 9592-9597.

Publication type:

Articles

Journal Article

Publication year:

2018

DOI:

https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803222115

Link(s):

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1803222115

https://www.pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1803222115

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