Pollution Check - Research

Links between urban ambient particulate matter and health - time series analysis of particle metrics. By R Atkinson, Ross Anderson, Gary Fuller, Ben Armstrong and Roy Harrison.

Preliminary conclusions from these analyses suggest that particle numbers (predominantly very fine particles) are the most relevant particle metric in terms of cardiovascular disease

Deaths and admissions from respiratory disease were associated with a range of particle metrics and it is less clear which metric(s) are the most relevant. Further work is underway to investigate this issue