Ambient air pollution and adult asthma incidence in six European cohorts (ESCAPE) (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Short-term exposure to air pollution has adverse effects among patients with asthma, but whether long-term exposure to air pollution is a cause of adult-onset asthma is unclear. OBJECTIVE:
Particulate matter and subclinical atherosclerosis: associations between different particle sizes and sources with carotid intima-media thickness in... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Subclinical atherosclerosis has been associated with long-term exposure to particulate matter (PM), but the relevance of particle size and sources of exposure remains unclear. OBJECTIVES:
Air pollution, climate and pollen comparisons in urban, rural and alpine regions in Switzerland (Publications)
The aim of this paper is to show spatial differences and correlations in long- term air pollution measurements in the eight SAPALDIA sites (Swiss Study on Air Pollution and Lung Diseases in Adults, SA
Asthma, COPD and overlap syndrome: a longitudinal study in young European adults (Publications)
We compared risk factors and clinical characteristics, 9-year lung function change and hospitalisation risk across subjects with the asthma-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) overlap syndrom
Land use regression models for ultrafine particles in six European areas (Publications)
Long-term ultrafine particle (UFP) exposure estimates at a fine spatial scale are needed for epidemiological studies. Land use regression (LUR) models were developed and evaluated for six European are
Transportation noise exposure and cardiovascular mortality: a nationwide cohort study from Switzerland (Publications)
Most studies published to date consider single noise sources and the reported noise metrics are not informative about the peaking characteristics of the source under investigation. Our study focuses o
Genome-wide association analyses for lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease identify new loci and potential druggable targets (Publications)
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is characterized by reduced lung function and is the third leading cause of death globally. Through genome-wide association discovery in 48,943 individuals
Systematic review of lung function and COPD with peripheral blood DNA methylation in population based studies (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Epigenetic variations in peripheral blood have potential as biomarkers for disease. This systematic review assesses the association of lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disea