Manon Benjdir, Étienne Audureau, Ariel Beresniak, Patrice Coll, Ralph Epaud, Kristina Fiedler, Bénédicte Jacquemin, Laurent Niddam, Spyros N Pandis, Gerhard Pohlmann, Torkjel M Sandanger, Kai Simmons, Mette Sørensen, Patrick Wagner, Sophie Lanone
Because of the direct interaction of lungs with the environment, respiratory diseases are among the leading causes of environment-related deaths in the world. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cystic fibrosis (CF) are two highly debilitating diseases that are of particular interest in the context of environmental studies; they both are characterized by a similar progressive loss of lung function with small bronchi alterations, and a high phenotypic variability of unknown origin, which prevents a good therapeutic efficacy...
August 2021: Environmental Epidemiology