Fine particulate air pollution, nitrogen dioxide, and systemic autoimmune rheumatic disease in Calgary

• Main Authors: Sasha Bernatsky, Audrey Smargiassi, Markey Johnson, Gilaad G Kaplan, Cheryl Barnabe, Larry Svenson, Allan Brand, Stefania Bertazzon, Marie Hudson, Ann E Clarke, Paul R Fortin, Steven Edworthy, Patrick Bélisle, Lawrence Joseph
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Billing; First Nations
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1045.787; http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/Joseph/publications/Methodological/bernatsky2015.pdf

a b s t r a c t Objective: To estimate the association between fine particulate (PM 2.5 ) and nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) pollution and systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases (SARDs). Methods: Associations between ambient air pollution (PM 2.5 and NO 2 ) and SARDs were assessed using land-use regressio...