Short-term exposure to air pollution and incidence of stroke in the Women's Health Initiative

Evidence of the association between daily variation in air pollution and risk of stroke is inconsistent, potentially due to the heterogeneity in stroke etiology. To estimate the associations between daily variation in ambient air pollution and risk of stroke and its subtypes among participants of the Women's Health Initiative, a large prospective cohort study in the United States. We used national-scale, log-normal ordinary kriging models to...