A recent prospective cohort study conducted in Hong Kong revealed a substantial linkage between simultaneous exposure to multiple air pollutants and age-related eye disease incidence.
“Given that individuals are exposed to a complex mixture of air pollutants and that high collinearity exists among different pollutants, estimating the combined effect of multiple air pollutants on human health is essential,” wrote Yingan Li, department of ophthalmology and visual sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and colleagues.1
The team collected information on more than 500,000 participants through the UK Biobank database; after excluding those with diagnoses prior to the study’s timeframe of 2006-2010, the total was narrowed down to 441,567 participants. These participants came from 22 different Biobank centers in…