ArticleEnvironment international2023
Long-term association of air pollution and incidence of lung cancer among older Americans: A national study in the Medicare cohort.
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- Particulate matter air pollution: effects on the respiratory system.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2025Review
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- The association between ambient air pollution and the risk of incident nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Hangzhou, China.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Assessing the impact of short-term ozone exposure on excess deaths from cardiovascular disease: a multi-pollutant model in Nanjing, China's Yangtze River Delta.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The effect of air pollution quality on lung cancer rates in middle-income and high-income countries: a panel data analysis approach.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundDespite strong evidence of the association of fine particulate matter (PM
objectivesWe investigated long-term effects of PM
methodsWe conducted a cohort study with Medicare beneficiaries (aged ≥ 65 years) continuously enrolled in the fee-for-service program in the contiguous US from 2001 to 2016. Air pollution exposure was averaged across three years and assigned based on ZIP code of residence. We fitted Cox proportional hazards models to estimate the hazard ratio (HR) for lung cancer incidence, adjusted for individual- and neighborhood-level confounders. As a sensitivity analysis, we evaluated the causal relationships using inverse probability weights. We further assessed effect modifications by individual- and neighborhood-level covariates.
resultsWe identified 166,860 lung cancer cases of 12,429,951 studied beneficiaries. In the multi-pollutant model, PM DISCUSSION: Long-term PM
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