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Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med., Volume 159, Number 2, February 1999, 373-382

Long-Term Inhalable Particles and Other Air Pollutants Related to Mortality in Nonsmokers

DAVID E. ABBEY, NAOMI NISHINO, WILLIAM F. MCDONNELL, RAOUL J. BURCHETTE, SYNNØVE F. KNUTSEN, W. LAWRENCE BEESON, and JIE X. YANG

Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California; and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Long-term ambient concentrations of inhalable particles less than 10 µm in diameter (PM10) (1973- 1992) and other air pollutants---total suspended sulfates, sulfur dioxide, ozone (O3), and nitrogen dioxide---were related to 1977-1992 mortality in a cohort of 6,338 nonsmoking California Seventh-day Adventists. In both sexes, PM10 showed a strong association with mortality for any mention of nonmalignant respiratory disease on the death certificate, adjusting for a wide range of potentially confounding factors, including occupational and indoor sources of air pollutants. The adjusted relative risk (RR) for this cause of death as associated with an interquartile range (IQR) difference of 43 d/yr when PM10 exceeded 100 µg/m3 was 1.18 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.02, 1.36). In males, PM10 showed a strong association with lung cancer deaths---RR for an IQR was 2.38 (95% CI: 1.42, 3.97). Ozone showed an even stronger association with lung cancer mortality for males with an RR of 4.19 (95% CI: 1.81, 9.69) for the IQR difference of 551 h/yr when O3 exceeded 100 parts per billion. Sulfur dioxide showed strong associations with lung cancer mortality for both sexes. Other pollutants showed weak or no association with mortality.




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