Table 2.
Mean (standard deviation) of the air pollution and traffic intensity levels at the 282194 participants’ addresses in 12 European cohorts
| Cohort | PM2.5, µg/m3 |
PM2.5 absorbance, 10–5/m |
PM10, µg/m3 | PMcoarse, µg/m3 | NO2, µg/m3 |
NOx, µg/m3 |
Traffic Intensity on the Nearest Road (vehicles/day) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPIC-Umeå, Sweden | – | – | – | – | 5.3 (2.5) | 8.8 (5.8) | 849 (1521) |
| HUBRO, Norway | 8.9 (1.3) | 1.2 (0.3) | 13.5 (3.1) | 4.0 (2.0) | 20.9 (8.0) | 38.2 (15.5) | 2509 (5098) |
| CEANS, Swedena | 7.1 (1.3) | 0.6 (0.2) | 14.7 (4.1) | 7.1 (3.1) | 10.8 (4.6) | 19.1 (10.2) | 1557 (4494) |
| DCH, Denmark | 11.3 (0.8) | 1.2 (0.2) | 17.2 (1.9) | 5.7 (1.0) | 16.5 (7.0) | 27.2 (18.5) | 3109 (7412) |
| EPIC-NL, Netherlandsb | 16.9 (0.6) | 1.4 (0.2) | 25.4 (1.5) | 8.5 (0.9) | 25.2 (6.2) | 37.9 (12.3) | 1290 (3797) |
| VHM&PP, Austria | 13.6 (1.2) | 1.7 (0.2) | 20.7 (2.4) | 6.7 (0.9) | 20.0 (5.5) | 40.1 (9.6) | 1718 (3647) |
| EPIC-Varese, Italy | – | – | – | – | 43.4 (17.3) | 85.9 (41.9) | – |
| EPIC-Turin, Italy | 30.2 (1.6) | 3.1 (0.4) | 46.6 (4.1) | 16.6 (2.7) | 53.0 (10.3) | 96.1 (20.3) | 4044 (9596) |
EPIC, European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition; HUBRO, Oslo Health Study; CEANS, Cardiovascular Effects of Air Pollution and Noise in Stockholm; DCH, Danish Diet, Health and Cancer cohort; VHM&PP, Vorarlberg Health Monitoring and Prevention Programme. aPooled data from the 4 cohorts from Stockholm, Sweden: SNAC-K, SALT/Twin gene, 60 y/IMPROVE, and SDPP. bPooled data from 2 Dutch cohorts: EPIC-MORGEN and EPIC-PROSPECT.