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Fine particulate air pollution and life expectancies in the United States: the role of influential observationsC Arden Pope
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
J Air Waste Manag Assoc 63:129-32. 2013..These results, however, also provide encouraging evidence that the improvements in air quality that occurred during the 1980s and 1990s contributed to measurable improvements in human health and life expectancy in the United States...
Mortality effects of a copper smelter strike and reduced ambient sulfate particulate matter air pollutionC Arden Pope
Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 2363, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:679-83. 2007..Yet there continues to be concern that public policy efforts to improve air quality may not produce actual improvement in human health...- Health effects of fine particulate air pollution: lines that connectC Arden Pope
Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 2363, USA
J Air Waste Manag Assoc 56:709-42. 2006.... - Confounding in air pollution epidemiology: the broader contextC Arden Pope
Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 2363, USA
Epidemiology 18:424-6; discussion 427-8. 2007..The more likely explanation of recent air pollution epidemiology is that air pollution, especially fine particulate and related pollution, has measurable effects on cardiopulmonary health... - Mortality effects of longer term exposures to fine particulate air pollution: review of recent epidemiological evidenceC Arden Pope
Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 2363, USA
Inhal Toxicol 19:33-8. 2007.... 
Relation of heart failure hospitalization to exposure to fine particulate air pollutionC Arden Pope
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
Am J Cardiol 102:1230-4. 2008....- Ischemic heart disease events triggered by short-term exposure to fine particulate air pollutionC Arden Pope
Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 2363, USA
Circulation 114:2443-8. 2006..These findings are inconclusive and controversial and require further study. This study evaluates the role of short-term particulate exposure in triggering acute ischemic heart disease events... - Fine-particulate air pollution and life expectancy in the United StatesC Arden Pope
Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 2363, USA
N Engl J Med 360:376-86. 2009..This study directly evaluated the changes in life expectancy associated with differential changes in fine particulate air pollution that occurred in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s... - Cardiovascular mortality and exposure to airborne fine particulate matter and cigarette smoke: shape of the exposure-response relationshipC Arden Pope
142 FOB, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 2363, USA
Circulation 120:941-8. 2009..This study directly assessed the shape of the exposure-response relationship between cardiovascular mortality and fine particulates from cigarette smoke and ambient air pollution... - Vascular function and short-term exposure to fine particulate air pollutionC Arden Pope
Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 2363, USA
J Air Waste Manag Assoc 61:858-63. 2011..More research is needed to determine the roles of age and gender, the effect of pollution sources, the importance of cumulative exposure over a few days versus a few hours, and the lag time between exposure and response... - Lung cancer and cardiovascular disease mortality associated with ambient air pollution and cigarette smoke: shape of the exposure-response relationshipsC Arden Pope
Economics Department, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA
Environ Health Perspect 119:1616-21. 2011..Comparable estimates of the exposure-response relationship for lung cancer are required for disease burden estimates and related public health policy assessments... - Epidemiology of fine particulate air pollution and human health: biologic mechanisms and who's at risk?C A Pope
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA
Environ Health Perspect 108:713-23. 2000..Additional knowledge is needed about the specific pollutants or mix of pollutants responsible for the adverse health effects and the biologic mechanisms involved... - What do epidemiologic findings tell us about health effects of environmental aerosols?C A Pope
Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA
J Aerosol Med 13:335-54. 2000.... - Ambient particulate air pollution, heart rate variability, and blood markers of inflammation in a panel of elderly subjectsC Arden Pope
Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:339-45. 2004..5; however, the small statistically significant associations that were observed suggest that exposure to PM2.5 may be one of multiple factors that influence HRV and CRP... - Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollutionC Arden Pope
Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, 142 FOB, Provo, UT 84602, USA
JAMA 287:1132-41. 2002..However, studies of health effects of long-term particulate air pollution have been less conclusive... - Cardiovascular mortality and long-term exposure to particulate air pollution: epidemiological evidence of general pathophysiological pathways of diseaseC Arden Pope
Brigham Young University, 130 FOB, Provo, UT 84602 2363, USA
Circulation 109:71-7. 2004..Associations with specific cardiopulmonary diseases might be useful in exploring potential mechanistic pathways linking exposure and mortality... - Particulate air pollution and daily mortality on Utah's Wasatch FrontC A Pope
Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602, USA
Environ Health Perspect 107:567-73. 1999.... - Acute exposure to environmental tobacco smoke and heart rate variabilityC A Pope
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Environ Health Perspect 109:711-6. 2001..Altered cardiac autonomic function, assessed by decrements in HRV, is associated with acute exposure to ETS and may be part of the pathophysiologic mechanisms linking ETS exposure and increased cardiac vulnerability... - Health effects of fine particulate air pollution: lines that connectJudith C Chow
Desert Research Institute, Division of Atmospheric Sciences, Reno, 89512 NV, USA
J Air Waste Manag Assoc 56:1368-80. 2006 - Mortality and long-term exposure to ambient air pollution: ongoing analyses based on the American Cancer Society cohortDaniel Krewski
McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
J Toxicol Environ Health A 68:1093-109. 2005..Information on the influence of covariates at multiple scales and of critical exposure time windows can assist policymakers in establishing timelines for regulatory interventions that maximize population health benefits... - Epidemiologic research needs for particulate air pollutionJonathan M Samet
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 66:1873-6. 2003 - Spatial regression models for large-cohort studies linking community air pollution and healthSabit Cakmak
Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
J Toxicol Environ Health A 66:1811-23. 2003..From a statistical point of view, it appears that a location surface in the deterministic component of the model was preferred to a distance-decay autocorrelation structure in the model's stochastic component... - Comments on the reanalysis projectDouglas Dockery
Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Toxicol Environ Health A 66:1689-96; discussion 1715-22. 2003 - Spatial analysis of air pollution and mortality in Los AngelesMichael Jerrett
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089 9011, USA
Epidemiology 16:727-36. 2005..To test this hypothesis, we modeled the association between air pollution and mortality using small-area exposure measures in Los Angeles, California... - Air pollution and health - good news and badC Arden Pope
N Engl J Med 351:1132-4. 2004