Traffic-related air pollution and prostate cancer risk: a case–control study in Montreal, Canada

Abstract

Exposure to ambient concentrations of NO2 at the current address was associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer. This novel finding requires replication.

Characterizing near-road air pollution using local-scale emission and dispersion models and validation against in-situ measurements

“…For example, exposure to nitrogen dioxide (NO2) has been positively associated with increased airway responsiveness in asthmatic individuals after short-term exposures and respiratory illnesses in children with longer-term exposures (United States Environmental Protection Agency 2008). Other studies also found a positive correlation between NO2 and incidences of breast cancer, heart attacks and asthma (Crouse et al 2010;Parent et al 2013;Wu et al 2011). …”

“…Due to the scale of this study, only NO2 and particulate matter will be emphasized. (Crouse et al 2010;Parent et al 2013;Wu et al 2011). Cohort studies have also found that NO2 was associated with life-time history of asthma and wheezing, with a positive correlation between residential location and its 8 distance to a highway (Brauer et al 2007).…”

“…surfaces (Kim and Guldmann 2015;Liu et al 2015;Shekarrizfard et al 2015), which can also be combined with home location or mobility data to evaluate exposure in epidemiological studies (Crouse et al 2010;Parent et al 2013). With the application of advanced geographic information system (GIS), high-resolution air pollution distribution maps can be generated with higher efficiency.…”

Active Transportation Decision-Making against the Background of Air Quality Information Provision: Walking Route Preferences of German Residents

“…As anticipated, there were significant differences between the eight experimental conditions of the 2 × 2 × 2 design, which provided information about the air quality along the two routes (conditions [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12], and the four control groups (conditions 1-4) with regard to the degree to which participants acknowledged that they were informed about the air quality along the two routes (M = 6.01, SD = 1.54 vs. M = 3.37, SD = 1.97, on a scale from 1 [lowest level of agreement] to 7 [highest level of agreement]; F(11,585) = 37.98, p < 0.001, with all the post hoc test results in agreement with the study's assumptions).…”

“…This is a concern to individuals because bad air quality decreases quality of life and increases mortality. In particular, road transportation-related air pollutants (i.e., carbon monoxide, black carbon, nitrogen dioxide, volatile organic compounds, ultrafine particles, and fine particulate matter) [5] are harmful to human health because they promote pulmonary diseases [6,7], cardiovascular diseases [8], as well as lung and prostate cancer [9,10].…”