Air Pollution Greater Danger to Health
According to a team of American and Canadian epidemiologists who studied two decades’ worth of data on residents of the Los Angeles metro area, exposure to fine particulate matter might increase the risk of heart attacks, lung cancer and other illnesses by two to three times more than previously thought.
The study is to appear in the November 2006 issue of Epidemiology. Citation: Michael Jerrett, Richard T. Burnett, Renjun Ma, C. Arden Pope III, Daniel Krewski, K. Bruce Newbold, George Thurston, Yuanli Shi, Norm Finkelstein, Eugenia E. Calle and Micheal J. Thun, “Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution and Mortality in Los Angeles,” Epidemiology. Vol. 16, No. 6.
The study is to appear in the November 2006 issue of Epidemiology. Citation: Michael Jerrett, Richard T. Burnett, Renjun Ma, C. Arden Pope III, Daniel Krewski, K. Bruce Newbold, George Thurston, Yuanli Shi, Norm Finkelstein, Eugenia E. Calle and Micheal J. Thun, “Spatial Analysis of Air Pollution and Mortality in Los Angeles,” Epidemiology. Vol. 16, No. 6.
