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. 2013 May 28;12:43. doi: 10.1186/1476-069X-12-43

Table 4.

Summary of cohort studies on NO2 and mortality from all causes and cardiovascular diseases (excess risk per 10 μg/m3)

Study name
Study population
Follow-up period
Pollutant
Conca (μg/m3)
Spatial scaleb
% change in risk (95% CI) in mortality per 10 μg/m3
References
            All causes Cardiovascular  
Oslo cohort
16,209 men in Oslo, Norway
1972 – 1998
NOx
11 (1 – 168)
Address (DISP)
8 (6,11)
NA
[68]
Netherlands Cohort Study
120, 852 subjects from Netherlands
1987 -1996
NO2
37 (15–67)
Address (LUR)
8 (0, 16)
7 (−6, 21)
[23]
German cohort
4752 women in Ruhr and surrounding area
1985 – 2003
NO2
39 (20 – 60)
Address (near)
11 (1,21)
36 (14, 63)
[20]
German cohort
4752 women in Ruhr and surrounding area
1985 – 2008
NO2
39 (20 – 60)
Address (near)
11 (4,18)
32 (18, 47)
[21]
PAARC
14,284 adults in 24 French areas
1974 – 1998
NO2
20 (12 – 32)
Address (near)
14 (3, 25)
27 (4, 56)
[42]
China nat. hypertension survey
70,497 men and women
1991 - 2000
NOx
50 (20 – 122)
City
2 (0, 3)
2 (1, 4)
[31]
Vancouver cohort
452,735 Vancouver residents aged 45–85 yr
1999 – 2002
NO2
32 (15 – 58)
Address (LUR)
NA
5 (1, 9)
[30]
DCH
52,061 adults in Copenhagen and Arhus
1993 - 2009
NO2
17 (11 – 60)
Address (DISP)
8 (2, 13)
15 (3,27)
[69]
US trucking industry cohort
53,814 men in the US trucking industry
1985 -2000
NO2
28 (14)
Address (LUR)
5 (3, 7)
4 (0, 8)
[32]
Chinese retrospective cohort study
9,941 adults from five districts of Shenyang city
1998 -2009
NO2
46 (18–78)
District (mean)
145 (134, 158)
146 (131, 163)
[33]
Rome longitudinal study
684,000 adults from Rome
2001 - 2006
NO2
45 (11)
Address (LUR)
4 (3, 5)
NA
[56]
California Teachers study
101,784 female teachers
1997 -2005
NO2
67 (10 – 134)
Address (Inter)
−3 (−9, 4)
−2 (−12, 9)
[36]
Shizuoka elderly cohort
13,444 adults > 65 yr
1999 - 2006
NO2
25 (−19, 75)
Address (LUR)
2 (−4, 8)
15 (3, 28)
[70]
Ontario tax cohort
205, 440 adults in Toronto, Hamilton,Windsor
1982 – 2004
NO2
43 (8), 31 (6), 24 (5)c
Address (LUR)
NA
8 (5, 11)
[71]
Rome longitudinal study 1,265,058 adults from Rome 2001 - 2010 NO2 44 (13–75) Address (LUR) 3 (2, 3) 3 (2, 4) [38]

a Mean with minimum – maximum in parentheses (μg/m3). One number in parentheses is standard deviation.

b Spatial scale of exposure assignment, in parentheses exposure assignment method. City = average of monitors within the city; Near = nearest monitor concentration; LUR = land use regression; Disp = dispersion modeling; Inter = interpolation.

c Mean (IQR) per city.

Studies adjusted for individual smoking except references [26,28,30,34,38,56].