Cardiovascular Disease Burden from Ambient Air Pollution in Europe Reassessed

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Ambient air pollution is a major health risk, leading to respiratory and cardiovascular mortality.

Ambient air pollution is a major health risk, leading to respiratory and cardiovascular mortality. A recent Global Exposure Mortality Model, based on an unmatched number of cohort studies in many countries, provides new hazard ratio functions, calling for re-evaluation of the disease burden. Accordingly, we estimated excess cardiovascular mortality attributed to air pollution in Europe.

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