Danielle Vienneau, Massimo Stafoggia, Sophia Rodopoulou, Jie Chen, Richard W Atkinson, Mariska Bauwelinck, Jochem O Klompmaker, Bente Oftedal, Zorana J Andersen, Nicole A H Janssen, Rina So, Youn-Hee Lim, Benjamin Flückiger, Regina Ducret-Stich, Martin Röösli, Nicole Probst-Hensch, Nino Künzli, Maciek Strak, Evangelia Samoli, Kees de Hoogh, Bert Brunekreef, Gerard Hoek
BACKGROUND: Long-term exposure to air pollution and noise is detrimental to health; but studies that evaluated both remain limited. This study explores associations with natural and cause-specific mortality for a range of air pollutants and transportation noise. METHODS: Over 4 million adults in Switzerland were followed from 2000 to 2014. Exposure to PM2.5 , PM2.5 components (Cu, Fe, S and Zn), NO2 , black carbon (BC) and ozone (O3 ) from European models, and transportation noise from source-specific Swiss models, were assigned at baseline home addresses...
March 27, 2023: Environmental Health