Big Data gives more insight into the health impacts of air pollution

donderdag 12 maart 2015 11:00

Long-term exposure to particulate air pollution and nitrogen dioxide has been found to be associated with total mortality and mortality from respiratory diseases and lung cancer in the Netherlands. This was the key finding of a recent study in the Environmental Health Perspectives Journal by RIVM and Utrecht University in which a new method was used to analyse data on 7 million adults living in the Netherlands.