Severe volcanic SO exposure and respiratory morbidity in the Icelandic population - a register study.

• Published in: Environmental Health
• Main Authors: Carlsen, Hanne Krage, Valdimarsdóttir, Unnur, Briem, Haraldur, Dominici, Francesca, Finnbjornsdottir, Ragnhildur Gudrun, Jóhannsson, Thorsteinn, Aspelund, Thor, Gislason, Thorarinn, Gudnason, Thorolfur
• Other Authors: 1Centre of Public Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 8, Reykjavík, 102, Iceland. [e-mail]. 2Environment and Natural resources, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 7, University of Iceland, 102, Reykjavík, Iceland. [e-mail]. 3Section of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Medicinaregatan 16A, 40530, Gothenburg, Sweden. [e-mail]. 4Centre of Public Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Sturlugata 8, Reykjavík, 102, Iceland. 5Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. 6Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Nobels väg 6, SE-171 77, Stockholm, Sweden. 7Chief Epidemiologist, Directorate of Health, Centre for Health Threats and Communicable Diseases, Barónsstigur 57, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland. 8The Environment Agency of Iceland, Suðurlandsbraut 24, 108, Reykjavík, Iceland. 9School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Sæmundargata 2, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland. 10Landspitali - the National University Hospital, Fossvogur, 108, Reykjavík, Iceland. 11Faculty of medicine, University of Iceland, Vatnsmýrarvegi 16, 101, Reykjavík, Iceland.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2021
• Subjects: Atmospheric transport; Epidemiology; Public health; Respiratory disease; Volcanic eruption; Öndunarfærasjúkdómar; Eldgos; Volcanic Eruptions; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Holuhraun; Reykjavík
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/621760; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-021-00698-y

To access publisher's full text version of this article, please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field or click on the hyperlink at the top of the page marked Download Background: The Holuhraun volcanic eruption September 2014 to February 2015 emitted large amounts of sulfur dioxide (...