Long-term ozone exposures and cause-specific mortality in a US Medicare cohort

Long-term exposure to NO2 and PM10 and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a prospective cohort of women

We assessed whether long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with all-cause and cause-specific mortality during a period of declining particulate matter concentrations. Approximately 4800 women aged 55 years from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, were followed for up to 18 years. Exposure to air pollution was assessed in two ways: (1) using the distance between the residential address a...

Cause-Specific Mortality among Medicare Enrollees

Long-term, cause-specific mortality after myocardial infarction in diabetes.

AIMS To compare long-term, cause-specific mortality after reperfusion therapy for ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in patients with and without diabetes. METHODS AND RESULTS Patients with STEMI (n = 395) were randomised to intravenous streptokinase (SK) or primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Median follow-up was 7.5 years (interquartile range 5.6-8.5). A total ...

All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality after Long-Term Sickness Absence for Psychiatric Disorders: A Prospective Cohort Study

OBJECTIVE The aim was to examine if long-term psychiatric sickness absence was associated with all-cause and diagnosis-specific (cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer and suicide) mortality for the period 1990-2007. An additional aim was to examine these associations for psychiatric sickness absence in 1990 and 2000, with follow-up on mortality during 1991-1997 and 2001-2007, separately. METHO...

Long-term ozone exposure and mortality.

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 uncertain. We examined the potential contribution of exposure to ozone to the risk of death from cardiopulmonary causes and specifically to death from respiratory causes. METHODS Data from the study cohor...