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SUBMITTER: Castro A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7049545 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Castro Alberto A Götschi Thomas T Achermann Beat B Baltensperger Urs U Buchmann Brigitte B Felber Dietrich Denise D Flückiger Alexandre A Geiser Marianne M Gälli Purghart Brigitte B Gygax Hans H Kutlar Joss Meltem M Lüthi Lara Milena LM Probst-Hensch Nicole N Strähl Peter P Künzli Nino N
International journal of public health 20200107 2
<h4>Objectives</h4>Ambient particulate matter (PM) is regulated with science-based air quality standards, whereas carcinogens are regulated with a number of "acceptable" cases. Given that PM is also carcinogenic, we identify differences between approaches.<h4>Methods</h4>We assessed the lung cancer deaths for Switzerland attributable to exposure to PM up to 10 µm (PM<sub>10</sub>) and to five particle-bound carcinogens. For PM<sub>10</sub>, we used an epidemiological approach based on relative r ...[more]