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Editorial
. 2025 Mar 24;11(2):01316-2024.
doi: 10.1183/23120541.01316-2024. eCollection 2025 Mar.

ERS Congress 2024: highlights from the Epidemiology and Environment Assembly

Simon Høj  1 , Selin Çakmakcı Karakaya  2 , Christine Cramer  3   4 , Parris J Williams  5 , Ane Johannessen  6 , Howraman Meteran  7   8
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Editorial

ERS Congress 2024: highlights from the Epidemiology and Environment Assembly

Simon Høj et al. ERJ Open Res. .

Abstract

The #ERSCongress 2024 sessions showcased by Assembly 6 (Epidemiology and Environment) underline the urgent need to address environmental and occupational exposures, improve smoking cessation tools, and advance epidemiological methodologies https://bit.ly/4fUzhPi.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of interest: H. Meteran reports receiving honoraria for lectures and advisory board meetings from GSK, Teva, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, Airsonett AB and ALK-Abelló not related to this article, within the past 5 years; and a research grant from ALK-Abelló A/S outside this article. The remaining authors have no conflicts of interest to report.

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