Residential air pollution does not modify the positive association between physical activity and lung function in current smokers in the ECRHS study

Background: Very few studies have examined whether a long-term beneficial effect of physical activity on lung function can be influenced by living in polluted urban areas. Objective: We assessed whether annual average residential concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and particulate matter with a...

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Main Authors: Elaine Fuertes, Iana Markevych, Deborah Jarvis, Danielle Vienneau, Kees de Hoogh, Josep Maria Antó, Gayan Bowatte, Roberto Bono, Angelo G. Corsico, Margareta Emtner, Thorarinn Gislason, José Antonio Gullón, Joachim Heinrich, John Henderson, Mathias Holm, Ane Johannessen, Bénédicte Leynaert, Alessandro Marcon, Pierpaolo Marchetti, Jesús Martínez Moratalla, Silvia Pascual, Nicole Probst-Hensch, José Luis Sánchez-Ramos, Valerie Siroux, Johan Sommar, Joost Weyler, Nino Kuenzli, Bénédicte Jacquemin, Judith Garcia-Aymerich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-11-01
Series:Environment International
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412018308377