Chronic airflow obstruction and ambient particulate air pollution
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Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
The most important cause of chronic airflow obstruction (CAO) is tobacco smoking. The Global Burden of Disease programme has suggested that air pollution is second only to smoking in determining loss of disability-adjusted life-years due to chronic respiratory disease.1 Evidence for this was obtained by applying the risk of disease associated with air pollution exposure, as estimated from various studies, to the known distribution of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) across the world.