Long-term exposure to air pollution and cardiorespiratory disease in the California teachers study cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

Several studies have linked long-term exposure to particulate air pollution with increased cardiopulmonary mortality; only two have also examined incident circulatory disease.

Objectives

To examine associations of individualized long-term exposures to particulate and gaseous air pollution with incident myocardial infarction and stroke, as well as all-cause and cause specific mortality.

Methods

We estimated long-term residential air pollution exposure for more than 100,000 participants in the California Teachers Study, a prospective cohort of female public school professionals.We linked geocoded residential addresses with inverse distance-weighted monthly pollutant surfaces for two measures of particulate matter and for several gaseous pollutants. We examined

SUBMITTER: Lipsett MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3208653 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature