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Editorial
. 2020 Feb 25;75(7):718-721.
doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2019.12.029.

Getting in Shape for the World's Leading Environmental Risk Factor

Sanjay Rajagopalan  1 , Sadeer Al-Kindi  2
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Editorial

Getting in Shape for the World's Leading Environmental Risk Factor

Sanjay Rajagopalan et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: air pollution; cardiovascular disease; particulate matter, PM(2.5).

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Figure 1. Exposure-Response Curve for PM2.5
Exposure-response curve for fine particulate matter fraction (PM2.5) Exposure-response curve for fine particulate matter fraction (PM2.5) for (A) ischemic heart disease mortality using integrated exposure-response (IER) model (adapted with permission from Burnett et al. [3]) and (B) all-cause mortality using the global estimates of mortality model (GEMM) (adapted with permission from Burnett et al.[1]). Black line shows estimates based on data, purple dashed line represents data extrapolation, red dotted line refers to the PM2.5 levels studies by Liang et al., and the blue dotted lines represent 95% confidence interval of the relative risk estimates.
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