Background: Air pollution has been associated with cardiovascular mortality, but it remains
unclear as to whether specific pollutants are related to specific cardiovascular causes of …

Background Adverse effects of air pollution on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality are
well established. There are comparatively fewer studies in Europe, and in the UK …

Background and aims Long-term exposure to air pollution increases cardiopulmonary
morbidity and mortality, but it is not clear which components of air pollution are the most …

Background: Few European studies have investigated the effects of long-term exposure to
both fine particulate matter (≤ 2.5 µm; PM2. 5) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) on mortality …

INTRODUCTION: Short term associations between air pollution indicators and
hospitalizations for cardiovascular diseases have been suggested by epidemiological and …

Aims Ambient air pollution is a major health risk, leading to respiratory and cardiovascular
mortality. A recent Global Exposure Mortality Model, based on an unmatched number of …

Background: Findings from previous cohort studies suggest a positive association between
traffic-related air pollution and cardiovascular mortality. However, few studies have …

Background The association between long-term exposure to air pollution and mortality from
cardiorespiratory diseases is well established, yet the evidence for other diseases remains …

Air pollution is composed of particulate matter (PM) and gaseous pollutants, such as
nitrogen dioxide and ozone. PM is classified according to size into coarse particles (PM 10) …

Background Long-term exposure to air pollution has been associated with mortality in urban
cohort studies. Few studies have investigated this association in large-scale population …