Title | Long-Term Ozone Exposure and Mortality |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | Jerrett, Michael, Richard T. Burnett, Arden C. Pope, Kazuhiko Ito, George Thurston, Daniel Krewski, Yuanli Shi, Eugenia Calle, and Michael Thun |
Journal | New England Journal of Medicine |
Volume | 360 |
Issue | 11 |
Pagination | 1085-1095 |
ISSN | 0028-4793 |
Abstract | Studies conducted over the past 15 years have provided substantial evidence that long-term exposure to air pollution is a risk factor for cardiopulmonary disease and death.1–5 Recent reviews of this literature suggest that fine particulate matter (particles that are ≤2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter [PM2.5]) has a primary role in these adverse health effects.6,7 The particulate-matter component of air pollution includes complex mixtures of metals, black carbon, sulfates, nitrates, and other direct and indirect byproducts of incomplete combustion and high-temperature industrial processes. Ozone is a single, well-defined pollutant, yet the effect of exposure to ozone on . . . |
URL | http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0803894 |
DOI | 10.1056/NEJMoa0803894 |