Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality and Long-Term Exposure to Source-Related Components of U.S. Fine Particle Air Pollution

George Thurston; Richard T. Burnett; Michelle C. Turner; Yuanli Shi; Daniel Krewski; Ramona Lall; Kazuhiko Ito; Michael Jerrett; Susan M. Gapstur; W. Ryan Diver; C. Arden Pope

doi:10.1289/ehp.1509777

Abstract

Thurston GD, Burnett RT, Turner MC, Shi Y, Krewski D, Lall R, Ito K, Jerrett M, Gapstur SM, Diver WR, Pope CA III. 2016. Ischemic heart disease mortality and long-term exposure to source-related components of U.S. fine particle air pollution. Environ Health Perspect 124:785-794; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1509777.

Keywords

Environmental healthAir pollutionHazard ratioParticulatesMedicinePollutionCoal combustion productsProportional hazards modelEnvironmental scienceToxicologyCoalChemistryInternal medicineConfidence intervalBiology

Affiliated Institutions

Related Publications

Associations Between 1980 U.S. Mortality Rates and Alternative Measures of Airborne Particle Concentration

Halûk Özkaynak , George Thurston

We analyzed the 1980 U.S. vital statistics and available ambient air pollution data bases for sulfates and fine, inhalable, and total suspended particles. Using multiple regress...

1987 Risk Analysis 261 citations

Potential Role of Ultrafine Particles in Associations between Airborne Particle Mass and Cardiovascular Health

Ralph J. Delfino , Constantinos Sioutas , Shaista Malik

Numerous epidemiologic time-series studies have shown generally consistent associations of cardiovascular hospital admissions and mortality with outdoor air pollution, particula...

2005 Environmental Health Perspectives 937 citations

National Particle Component Toxicity (NPACT) Initiative: integrated epidemiologic and toxicologic studies of the health effects of particulate matter components.

Morton Lippmann , Lung‐Chi Chen , Terry Gordon +2 more

Particulate matter (PM*), an ambient air criteria pollutant, is a complex mixture of chemical components; particle sizes range from nanometer-sized molecular clusters to dust pa...

2013 PubMed 194 citations

Publication Info

Year: 2015
Type: article
Volume: 124
Issue: 6
Pages: 785-794
Citations: 398
Access: Closed

External Links

View on DOI.org

Social Impact

Altmetric

Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality and Long-Term Exposure to Source-Related Components of U.S. Fine Particle Air Pollution

PlumX Metrics

Social media, news, blog, policy document mentions

Citation Metrics

398

OpenAlex

Cite This

APA Style

                            
                                
                                    George Thurston, 
                                
                                    Richard T. Burnett, 
                                
                                    Michelle C. Turner
                                
                                et al.
                            
                            (2015). 
                            Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality and Long-Term Exposure to Source-Related Components of U.S. Fine Particle Air Pollution. 
                            Environmental Health Perspectives
                            , 124
                            (6)
                            , 785-794.
                            https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1509777
                        

Identifiers

DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1509777