Background WHO has published several volumes of Global Air Quality Guidelines to provide
guidance on the health risks associated with exposure to outdoor air pollution. As new …

Cardiovascular diseases are major contributors to global deaths and disability‐adjusted life
years, with hypertension a significant risk factor for all causes of death. The endothelium that …

Background Few studies on long-term exposure to air pollution and mortality have been
reported from Europe. Within the multicentre European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution …

Background Few studies examining the associations between long-term exposure to
ambient air pollution and mortality have considered multiple pollutants when assessing …

Objectives To study the effect of long term exposure to airborne pollutants on the incidence
of acute coronary events in 11 cohorts participating in the European Study of Cohorts for Air …

Air pollution is now fully acknowledged to be a public health problem and a social issue.
Particulate matter (PM) concentration has been linked with several clinical manifestations of …

Air pollutants such as NO 2 and PM 2.5 have consistently been linked to mortality, but only
few previous studies have addressed associations with long-term exposure to black carbon …

Background: Concentrations of outdoor nitrogen dioxide (NO 2) have been associated with
increased mortality. Hazard ratios (HRs) from cohort studies are used to assess population …

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 …

Objective Quantitative estimates of air pollution health impacts have become an increasingly
critical input to policy decisions. The WHO project “Health risks of air pollution in Europe …