Expert position paper on air pollution and cardiovascular disease

Affiliations

• ¹ British Heart Foundation Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ² Scientific Direction, IRCCS Cà Granda Foundation Maggiore Hospital, Milan, Italy.
• ³ Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
• ⁴ Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ⁶ Queens Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
• ⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Rome, Italy.
• ⁸ Department of Transfusion Medicine and Haematology, Azienda Ospedaliera Carlo Poma, Mantova, Italy.
• ⁹ Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC - University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Charlemont Cardiology, Charlemont Mall, Dublin 2, Ireland.
• ¹¹ Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
• ¹² IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine and Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
• ¹³ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, Center for Molecular and Vascular Biology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
• ¹⁴ Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ¹⁵ Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Department of Environmental Health, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Kuopio, Finland.
• ¹⁶ Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany German Center for Cardiovacular Disease Research (DZHK), Munich-Site, Munich, Germany.
• ¹⁷ Heart Failure Unit, Cardiology, G da Saliceto Hospital, AUSL Piacenza, Italy.
• ¹⁸ School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ¹⁹ Department of Cardiovascular Science, University of Sheffield, Beech Hill Road, Sheffield S10 2RX, UK r.f.storey@sheffield.ac.uk.