Effect of Air Pollution Control on Life Expectancy in the United States

Correia, Andrew W.; Pope, C. Arden; Dockery, Douglas W.; Wang, Yun; Ezzati, Majid; Dominici, Francesca

doi:10.1097/ede.0b013e3182770237

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“…A large literature provides evidence that breathing combustion-related fine PM, even at exposure levels common to populations throughout the world, contributes to cardiorespiratory disease mortality and diminished LE. There is also encouraging evidence that improving air quality contributes to improvements in human health and LE (5,11,12). The results reported by Chen et al (1) in PNAS make an important contribution to this evidence base that is growing hard to ignore, and begs to be better understood.…”

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Air pollution and life expectancy in China and beyond

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2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…The correct equivalency conversion to compare the Chinese study with studies based on PM 2.5 is unknown, but United States data from 1979 to 1983 (6) indicate that ∼30% of TSP was PM 2.5 . In (6,11,12). Long-term exposures of 30 μg/m 3 of PM 2.5 or more are common in population centers of China, India, and other developing countries.…”

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Air pollution and life expectancy in China and beyond

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2013

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Particulate Matter Air Pollution and the Risk of Incident CKD and Progression to ESRD

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Xie²,

Li³

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Elevated levels of fine particulate matter ,2.5 mm in aerodynamic diameter (PM 2.5 ) are associated with increased risk of cardiovascular outcomes and death, but their association with risk of CKD and ESRD is unknown. We linked the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Veterans Affairs databases to build an observational cohort of 2,482,737 United States veterans, and used survival models to evaluate the association of PM 2.5 concentrations and risk of incident eGFR ,60 ml/min per 1.73 m 2 , incident CKD, eGFR decline $30%, and ESRD over a median follow-up of 8.52 years. In time-varying analyses, a 10-mg/m 3 increase in PM 2.5 concentration was associated with similarly increased risk of eGFR,60 ml/min per 1.73 m 2 , CKD, eGFR decline $30%, and ESRD. Spline analyses showed a linear relationship between PM 2.5 concentrations and risk of kidney outcomes. Exposure estimates derived from National Aeronautics and Space Administration satellite data yielded consistent results. Our findings demonstrate a significant association between exposure to PM 2.5 and risk of incident CKD, eGFR decline, and ESRD.

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“…1998; Pope et al, 2002;Vineis et al, 2006), mortality, and lower life expectancy (Chen et al, 2013;Correia et al, 2013;Dockery et al, 1993;Franklin et al, 2007;Goldgewicht, 2007;Laden et al, 2000;Ostro et al, 2006;Pope et al, 2009). Recently a few studies have investigated the associations between particle composition and health effects (Bell et al, 2010(Bell et al, , 2007Burnett et al, 2000;Cao et al, 2012;Franklin et al, 2008;Ito et al, 2011;Krall et al, 2013;Levy et al, 2012;Mar et al, 2000;Ostro et al, 2007Ostro et al, , 2010Son et al, 2012).…”

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Long-term particulate matter modeling for health effect studies in California – Part 1: Model performance on temporal and spatial variations

Zhang

Ying

et al. 2015

Atmos. Chem. Phys.

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Abstract. For the first time, a ∼ decadal (9 years from 2000 to 2008) air quality model simulation with 4 km horizontal resolution over populated regions and daily time resolution has been conducted for California to provide air quality data for health effect studies. Model predictions are compared to measurements to evaluate the accuracy of the simulation with an emphasis on spatial and temporal variations that could be used in epidemiology studies. Better model performance is found at longer averaging times, suggesting that model results with averaging times ≥ 1 month should be the first to be considered in epidemiological studies. The UCD/CIT model predicts spatial and temporal variations in the concentrations of O 3 , PM 2.5 , elemental carbon (EC), organic carbon (OC), nitrate, and ammonium that meet standard modeling performance criteria when compared to monthly-averaged measurements. Predicted sulfate concentrations do not meet target performance metrics due to missing sulfur sources in the emissions. Predicted seasonal and annual variations of PM 2.5 , EC, OC, nitrate, and ammonium have mean fractional biases that meet the model performance criteria in 95, 100, 71, 73, and 92 % of the simulated months, respectively. The base data set provides an improvement for predicted population exposure to PM concentrations in California compared to exposures estimated by central site monitors operated 1 day out of every 3 days at a few urban locations. Uncertainties in the model predictions arise from several issues. Incomplete understanding of secondary organic aerosol formation mechanisms leads to OC bias in the model results in summertime but does not affect OC predictions in winter when concentrations are typically highest. The CO and NO (species dominated by mobile emissions) results reveal temporal and spatial uncertainties associated with the mobile emissions generated by the EMFAC 2007 model. The WRF model tends to overpredict wind speed during stagnation events, leading to underpredictions of high PM concentrations, usually in winter months. The WRF model also generally underpredicts relative humidity, resulting in less particulate nitrate formation, especially during winter months. These limitations must be recognized when using data in health studies. All model results included in the current manuscript can be downloaded free of charge at http: //faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/kleeman/.

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Effect of Air Pollution Control on Life Expectancy in the United States

Cited by 372 publications

References 33 publications

Air pollution and life expectancy in China and beyond

Air pollution and life expectancy in China and beyond

Particulate Matter Air Pollution and the Risk of Incident CKD and Progression to ESRD

Long-term particulate matter modeling for health effect studies in California – Part 1: Model performance on temporal and spatial variations

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