Anne Marb

Mar 1, 2024 | jamanetwork.com | Jesse Berman |Yiqun Ma |Federica Nobile |Anne Marb

The link between air pollution exposure and increased mortality and morbidity is firmly supported by a broad evidence base. The 2015 Global Burden of Diseases Study, a 195-country investigation, found fine particulate matter (ie, particles with an aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 μm [PM2.5]) to be the fifth ranking worldwide mortality risk factor, with an attributed 4.2 million premature deaths.1 Yet these impacts are not equally distributed.