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Comment
. 2023 Mar 14;20(6):5075.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph20065075.

Comment on Abdul Jabbar et al. Air Quality, Pollution and Sustainability Trends in South Asia: A Population-Based Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 7534

Muhammad Bilal  1 , Gerrit de Leeuw  2   3 , Janet E Nichol  4 , Max P Bleiweiss  5 , Leiku Yang  1 , Huabin Chai  1 , Alaa Mhawish  6 , Md Arfan Ali  7
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Comment on Abdul Jabbar et al. Air Quality, Pollution and Sustainability Trends in South Asia: A Population-Based Study. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 7534

Muhammad Bilal et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

This comment discusses the use of PM2.5 (mass concentration of fine particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 microns) data in the recently published article entitled "Air Quality, Pollution and Sustainability Trends in South Asia: A Population-Based Study" by Abdul Jabbar et al. [...].

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The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study, in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data, in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.

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Time series of PM2.5 concentrations obtained from (a) the WHO database (2010–2016) and (b) CAMS reanalysis data (2010–2017). (c) PM2.5 exposure was obtained from the World Bank database (2010–2017). PM2.5 concentrations from the WHO website were not available for 2017.
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