Articoli scientifici - 19/12/2025
Short-term effects of PM10 on cause-specific mortality in municipalities across industrial sites in Italy
Effetti a breve termine del PM10 sulla mortalità specifica per causa nei comuni vicini ai siti industriali in Italia
Introduction
Ambient air pollution is one of the most important environmental risk factors for the human health. Approximatively, 4.2 million of premature deaths occur each year worldwide due to air pollution exposure.1 Moreover, 99% of total population is exposed to higher levels of air pollutants according to the World Health Organization (WHO) report released in 2022.2 The environmental epidemiological research has clearly highlighted the harmful role of air pollution exposure on several outc…