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Lung cancer, cardiopulmonary mortality, and long-term exposure to fine particulate air pollution.
- C. Pope, R. Burnett, +4 authors G. Thurston
- Medicine
- JAMA
- 6 March 2002
CONTEXT
Associations have been found between day-to-day particulate air pollution and increased risk of various adverse health outcomes, including cardiopulmonary mortality. However, studies of… Expand
Overweight, obesity, and mortality from cancer in a prospectively studied cohort of U.S. adults.
- E. Calle, C. Rodríguez, Kimberly A. Walker-Thurmond, M. Thun
- Medicine
- The New England journal of medicine
- 24 April 2003
BACKGROUND
The influence of excess body weight on the risk of death from cancer has not been fully characterized.
METHODS
In a prospectively studied population of more than 900,000 U.S. adults… Expand
Particulate air pollution as a predictor of mortality in a prospective study of U.S. adults.
- C. A. Pope, M. Thun, +4 authors C. Heath
- Medicine
- American journal of respiratory and critical care…
- 1 March 1995
Time-series, cross-sectional, and prospective cohort studies have observed associations between mortality and particulate air pollution but have been limited by ecologic design or small number of… Expand
Body-mass index and mortality in a prospective cohort of U.S. adults.
- E. Calle, M. Thun, J. Petrelli, C. Rodríguez, C. Heath
- Medicine
- The New England journal of medicine
- 7 October 1999
BACKGROUND
Body-mass index (the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) is known to be associated with overall mortality. We investigated the effects of age, race, sex,… Expand
Cancer Statistics, 2008
Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the number of new cancer cases and deaths expected in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent data on cancer incidence,… Expand
Extended follow-up and spatial analysis of the American Cancer Society study linking particulate air pollution and mortality.
- D. Krewski, M. Jerrett, +18 authors B. Tempalski
- Geography, Medicine
- Research report
- 1 May 2009
We conducted an extended follow-up and spatial analysis of the American Cancer Society (ACS) Cancer Prevention Study II (CPS-II) cohort in order to further examine associations between long-term… Expand
A genome-wide association study identifies alleles in FGFR2 associated with risk of sporadic postmenopausal breast cancer
- D. Hunter, P. Kraft, +27 authors S. Chanock
- Biology, Medicine
- Nature Genetics
- 27 May 2007
We conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of breast cancer by genotyping 528,173 SNPs in 1,145 postmenopausal women of European ancestry with invasive breast cancer and 1,142 controls. We… Expand
Cardiovascular Mortality and Long-Term Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution: Epidemiological Evidence of General Pathophysiological Pathways of Disease
- C. Pope, R. Burnett, +4 authors J. Godleski
- Medicine
- Circulation
- 15 December 2003
Background—Epidemiologic studies have linked long-term exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution (PM) to broad cause-of-death mortality. Associations with specific cardiopulmonary diseases… Expand
Cancer Disparities by Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status
This article highlights disparities in cancer incidence, mortality, and survival in relation to race/ethnicity, and census data on poverty in the county or census tract of residence. The incidence… Expand
Long-term ozone exposure and mortality.
- M. Jerrett, R. Burnett, +6 authors M. Thun
- Medicine
- The New England journal of medicine
- 10 December 2009
BACKGROUND
Although many studies have linked elevations in tropospheric ozone to adverse health outcomes, the effect of long-term exposure to ozone on air pollution-related mortality remains… Expand
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