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Study: air pollution causes 800,000 extra deaths a year in Europe and 8.8 million worldwide

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—Co-author Professor Jos Lelieveld, of the Max-Plank Institute for Chemistry in Mainz and the Cyprus Institute Nicosia. 2019) “Cardiovascular disease burden from ambient air pollution in Europe reassessed using novel hazard ratio functions” European Heart Journal doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz135. They focused particularly on PM 2.5

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