Current day concentrations of ambient air pollution have been associated with a range of
adverse health effects, particularly mortality and morbidity due to cardiovascular and …

Background Quantification of the disease burden caused by different risks informs
prevention by providing an account of health loss different to that provided by a disease-by …

Importance Understanding the major health problems in the United States and how they are
changing over time is critical for informing national health policy. Objectives To measure the …

Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2. 5) is a major global health concern.
Quantitative estimates of attributable mortality are based on disease-specific hazard ratio …

As part of the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Burden of Disease Comparative
Risk Assessment, the burden of disease attributable to urban ambient air pollution was …

Abstract The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) is a comparative assessment of the health
impact of the major and well-established risk factors, including ambient air pollution (AAP) …

An association between air pollution measured as particulate matter, and mortality has been
reported in several different locations. These studies have been conducted over a wide …

Recent studies, primarily in Europe, have reported associations between respiratory
symptoms and residential proximity to traffic; however, few have measured traffic pollutants …

Current scientific evidence, derived largely from studies in North America and Western
Europe (NAWE), indicates that urban air pollution, 1 which is derived largely from …

The disease burden of a population, and how that burden is distributed across different
subpopulations (eg infants, women), are important pieces of information for defining …