title: Response to: Premature deaths attributed to ambient air pollutants: let us interpret the Robins-Greenland theorem correctly.
authors.affiliation: WHO European Centre for Environment and Health, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Bonn, Germany. herouxm@who.int.
authors.forename: Marie-Eve
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Héroux
authors.affiliation: MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Population Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London, London, UK.|Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences and Environmental Research Group, King's College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: H Ross
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.affiliation: MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, Population Health Research Institute, St George's, University of London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Atkinson
authors.affiliation: Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.|Julius Center for Primary Care and Health Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Bert
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brunekreef
authors.affiliation: Health Effects Institute, Boston, USA.
authors.forename: Aaron
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cohen
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology, Lazio Regional Health Service, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Forastiere
authors.affiliation: Institute of Occupational Medicine, Riccarton, Edinburgh, UK.
authors.forename: Fintan
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hurley
authors.affiliation: Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.|Department of Primary Care and Public Health Sciences and Environmental Research Group, King's College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Klea
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Katsouyanni
authors.affiliation: McLaughlin Centre for Population Health Risk Assessment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Krewski
authors.affiliation: Environmental Research Group, King's College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Michal
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krzyzanowski
authors.affiliation: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.|University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
authors.forename: Nino
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Künzli
authors.affiliation: Public Health England, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK.
authors.forename: Inga
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Mills
authors.affiliation: Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDÆA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Xavier
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Querol
authors.affiliation: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA), Research Triangle Park, USA.
authors.forename: Bart
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Ostro
authors.affiliation: MRC-PHE Centre for Environment and Health, and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London, London, UK.
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Walton
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D000397:Air Pollution; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D006801:Humans; D061213:Mortality, Premature; D052638:Particulate Matter / Q000032:analysis
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D052638:Particulate Matter