Air Pollution and Postneonatal Infant Mortality in the United States, 1999-2002

• Published in: Environmental health perspectives Vol. 116; no. 1; pp. 110 - 115
• Main Authors: Woodruff, Tracey J., Darrow, Lyndsey A., Parker, Jennifer D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. National Institutes of Health. Department of Health, Education and Welfare 01.01.2008; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• Subjects: Air pollutants; Air Pollutants - analysis; Air Pollutants - toxicity; Air Pollution; Carbon Monoxide - analysis; Carbon Monoxide - toxicity; Cause of Death; Causes of death; Children's Health; Death; Environmental aspects; Environmental Exposure - adverse effects; Environmental Monitoring; Epidemiological Monitoring; Health aspects; Humans; Infant; Infant Mortality; Infant, Newborn; Infants; Mortality; Ozone; Ozone - analysis; Ozone - toxicity; Particle Size; Particulate matter; Particulate Matter - analysis; Particulate Matter - toxicity; Patient outcomes; Pollutants; Sudden Infant Death - epidemiology; Sudden Infant Death - etiology; Sudden infant death syndrome; Sulfur Dioxide - analysis; Sulfur Dioxide - toxicity; United States; United States; USA; respiratory-related deaths; particulate matter air pollution; sulfur dioxide; carbon monoxide; sudden infant death syndrome; postneonatal infant mortality; ozone

OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to evaluate the relationship between cause-specific postneonatal infant mortality and chronic early-life exposure to particulate matter and gaseous air pollutants across the United States. METHODS: We linked county-specific monitoring data for particles with aerodiameter of$\...