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Updated global estimates of respiratory mortality in adults
                >/=30Years of age attributable to long-term ozone exposure

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BACKGROUND: Relative risk estimates for long-term ozone (O3)
                exposure and respiratory mortality from the American Cancer
                Society Cancer Prevention Study II (ACS CPS-II) cohort have been
                used to estimate global O3-attributable mortality in adults.
                Updated relative risk estimates are now available for the same
                cohort based on an expanded study population with longer
                follow-up. OBJECTIVES: We estimated the global burden and
                spatial distribution of respiratory mortality attributable to
                long-term O3 exposure in adults >/=30y of age using updated
                effect estimates from the ACS CPS-II cohort. METHODS: We used
                GEOS-Chem simulations (2x2.5 masculine grid resolution) to
                estimate annual O3 exposures, and estimated total respiratory
                deaths in 2010 that were attributable to long-term annual O3
                exposure based on the updated relative risk estimates and
                minimum risk thresholds set at the minimum or fifth percentile
                of O3 exposure in the most recent CPS-II analysis. These
                estimates were compared with attributable mortality based on the
                earlier CPS-II analysis, using 6-mo average exposures and risk
                thresholds corresponding to the minimum or fifth percentile of
                O3 exposure in the earlier study population. RESULTS: We
                estimated 1.04-1.23 million respiratory deaths in adults
                attributable to O3 exposures using the updated relative risk
                estimate and exposure parameters, compared with 0.40-0.55
                million respiratory deaths attributable to O3 exposures based on
                the earlier CPS-II risk estimate and parameters. Increases in
                estimated attributable mortality were larger in northern India,
                southeast China, and Pakistan than in Europe, eastern United
                States, and northeast China. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest
                that the potential magnitude of health benefits of air quality
                policies targeting O3, health co-benefits of climate mitigation
                policies, and health implications of climate change-driven
                changes in O3 concentrations, are larger than previously
                thought. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1390.

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National Institute of Environmental Health Science

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Reproducció del document publicat a:
                http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP1390

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Environmental Health Perspectives, 2017, vol. 125, num. 8, p.
                087021

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Articles publicats en revistes (ISGlobal)

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Updated global estimates of respiratory mortality in adults
                >/=30Years of age attributable to long-term ozone exposure