High Environmental Ozone Levels and Extrinsic Skin Aging

Introduction: We have recently reported a positive association of high levels of tropospheric ozone (O3) with extrinsic skin aging in the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II). In the current analysis, we combined two German cohorts and added a measure of an accumulated O3 exposure. Material and Methods: We pooled two population-based cohorts: the older group of BASE-II participants (Berlin, 1,431 men and women aged 60–84) and the SALIA...