Investigating associations between anti-nuclear antibody positivity and combined long-term exposures to NO2, O3, and PM2.5 using a Bayesian kernel machine regression approach

Background: Air pollution has many adverse health effects, but the combined or synergistic effects of multiple ambient air pollutants on anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA, a serologic marker of systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease, SARDs) have never been assessed. Objective: To flexibly model ANA and in...

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Main Authors: Naizhuo Zhao, Audrey Smargiassi, Marie Hudson, Marvin J. Fritzler, Sasha Bernatsky
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-03-01
Series:Environment International
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412019331368