Chronic Effects of Air Pollution are Probably Overestimated |
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| Authors: | Paolo Boffetta Carlo La Vecchia Suresh Moolgavkar |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA;2. Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy;3. Exponent, Inc, Bellevue, WA, USA;4. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, USA |
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| Abstract: | Inappropriate measures of exposure, including inadequate consideration of latency in the analysis of chronic effects of air pollution, may lead to overestimation of the impact of air pollution on health effects. A relatively simple way to check the plausibility of results on chronic effects of air pollution would be to report in parallel the smoking‐associated risks. |
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