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Activity Number:
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546
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Type:
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Invited
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Risk Analysis
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Abstract - #303741 |
Title:
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Particulate Matter Is Not Killing Californians
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Author(s):
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James E. Enstrom*+
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Companies:
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University of California at Los Angeles
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Address:
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BOX 951772, A1-295 CHS, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1772,
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Keywords:
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epidemiology ;
particulate matter ;
mortality ;
causality ;
statistics ;
California
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Abstract:
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There is now overwhelming epidemiologic evidence that particulate matter (PM), both fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and course particulate matter (PM10), is not related to total mortality in California. I will examine all the long-term PM epidemiologic cohort studies in California, and discuss the ways the findings from these studies have be used and/or ignored. I will discuss the limitations of these studies: lack of access to key databases; the ecological fallacy; failure to consider other pollutants; failure to satisfy causality criteria; and failure to consider other competing health risks. Also, ethical issues underlying much of PM2.5 epidemiology will be discussed. I will make a strong case that PM2.5 is not killing Californians and that there is not a scientific or public health basis for the many of the existing and proposed regulations designed to reduce PM levels in California.
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