About the Authors

Nino Künzli

Nino.Kuenzli@unibas.ch

Affiliations Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (Swiss TPH), Basel, Switzerland, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain

Michael Jerrett

Affiliation Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Raquel Garcia-Esteban

Affiliation Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain

Xavier Basagaña

Affiliation Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain

Bernardo Beckermann

Affiliation Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America

Frank Gilliland

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Merce Medina

Affiliation Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL, Barcelona, Spain

John Peters

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Howard N. Hodis

Affiliation Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Wendy J. Mack

Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NK HNH WJM. Performed the experiments: HNH WJM. Analyzed the data: NK MJ RGE XB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MJ BB FG MM WJM. Wrote the paper: NK MJ. Initiated project, idea of pooling of 5 trials: NK. Lead development of all exposure assessment models: MJ. Statistical advice, contributed to writing the paper: XB. Conducted spatial models for exposure assessment: BB. Input in analysis strategy, review of manuscript versions: FG JMP. Reviewed paper: MM. Reviewed and revised manuscript: HNH. Revised manuscript: WJM.