Thursday, October 23, 2003 TODAY
School of Public Health news
SPH professors present latest findings from Adventist Health and Smog study
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| At the annual conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology in Perth, Australia, Synnove Knutsen, MD, PhD (left), principal investigator of the AHSMOG study, gives a presentation. She explains the association between particulate air pollution and risk of fatal coronary heart disease in a non-smoking population. |
Synnove Knutsen, MD, PhD, professor and chair, epidemiology/biostatistics,
School of Public Health and School of Medicine, and Larry Beeson, DrPH,
assistant professor, epidemiology/biostatistics, SPH, traveled to Perth,
Australia, in September to present the latest findings from the Adventist
Health and Smog (AHSMOG) study.
The event was the 15th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental
Epidemiology (ISEE) and was attended by more than 320 scientists from 42 countries.
The primary focus of ISEE is to discuss current trends in air pollution research.
Drs. Knutsen and Beeson collectively presented four oral presentations from the
observed relationship between long-term exposures to ambient particulate and
gaseous air pollutants as independent risk factors for fatal coronary heart disease
and stroke.
The AHSMOG study is currently funded by a grant from the United States Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) to refine statistical models of ambient air pollution
in association with adverse health events (e.g. respiratory disease, cancer incidence,
lung function, etc.).
This study began as a substudy from the parent Adventist Health Study-1 which
began in 1974 and is currently being analyzed by the AHSMOG research team including
Dr. Knutsen, principal investigator, and co-investigators Dr. Beeson; Mark Ghamsary,
PhD, assistant professor, biostatistics, SPH; Sam Soret, PhD, assistant professor,
environmental/occupational health, SPH & SM; Floyd Petersen, MPH, assistant
professor, epidemiology/biostatistics, SPH & SM; and several graduate students.
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