A UNB researcher played a leading role in the largest and most comprehensive Canadian study examining links between air pollution and risk of mortality ever conducted.
A UNB researcher played a leading role in the largest and most comprehensive Canadian study examining links between air pollution and risk of mortality ever conducted.
The study, published in Health Effects Institute report, reveals that even at the very low levels of pollution seen across most of Canada, including the Maritimes, exposure produces small but significant increased risks of dying.
Dr. Dan Crouse is a researcher with UNB’s department of sociology and the New Brunswick Institute for Research, Data, and Training; in partnership with Statistics Canada, and along with researchers from McGill University, the University of British Columbia, Dalhousie University and Oregon State University, he followed almost 9 million Canadian adults from across the country for up to 25 years. The group used varying methods of estimating exposure to pollution, including in relatively small buffers around people’s homes, in larger buffers covering their neighborhoods, and by looking at exposures in the recent short-term (e.g. the past year) versus exposures averaged over eight years, all while considering different mixtures of pollutants.
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