Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2015; 46: Suppl. 59, abstract number.
Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2015; 46: Suppl. 59, abstract number.
Air pollution health effects: from epidemiology to controlled human exposure
Symposium Chairs: Stephanie London (Research Triangle Park, United States of America), Valerie Siroux (La Tronche, France)
Aims: To update the audience about current environmental epidemiology research (specifically on air pollution) in relation to pulmonary disease and its outcomes, provide a platform for risk assessment related to air pollution levels and pulmonary disease, discuss state-of-the-art methods for gene-environment interaction analyses and epigenetics research (methylation in particular), highlight the mechanisms of disease onset and deterioration that were elucidated by controlled human exposure studies and establish an ERS platform for collaborations between epidemiologists, pulmonologists, paediatricians and experimentalists in this research area.
Target audience: Epidemiologists, public health workers, policy makers, pulmonologists, paediatricians, general practitioners, geneticists, and experimental scientists.