Rationale: Current evidence on the relationship between long-term exposure to air pollution
and new onset of chronic lung disease is inconclusive. Objectives: To examine associations …

Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution has been linked to cardiovascular mortality, but
the associations with incidence of major cardiovascular diseases are not fully understood, …

Background Osmotic demyelination syndrome (ODS) is a rare but potentially devastating
neurologic complication of hyponatremia. The primary objective of this study was to identify the …

Background Exposure to road traffic noise has been linked to cardiometabolic complications,
such as elevated blood pressure and glucose dysregulation. However, epidemiologic …

… Saeha Shin was responsible for acquiring data and for all analyses presented in this
study. Fahad Razak drafted the manuscript and all authors revised it for important intellectual …

Lung and female breast cancers are highly prevalent worldwide. Although the association
between exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) and lung cancer has been …

Background: Although growing evidence links air pollution to stroke incidence, less is known
about the effect of air pollution on atrial fibrillation (AF), an important risk factor for stroke. …

Background Despite recent studies linking air pollution to neurodegenerative illness,
evidence relating air pollution and Parkinson’s disease (PD) remains scarce. We conducted a …

Background: Epidemiological evidence for the association between traffic-related noise and
the incidence of major cardiovascular events such as acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and …

Background Identifying venous thromboembolism (VTE) from large clinical and administrative
databases is important for research and quality improvement. Objective To develop and …