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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Spatial Cluster of Air Pollutants and Its Association with Life Expectancy, Age-Specific Mortality Risk, and Cause-Specific Mortality Rate: A County-Level Ecological Study Across the USA.

Jing Wang, Qiaochu Xu, Rong Rong, Bingjie Qu, Xiang Shi, Bin Hu, Peng Zhao, Chengxiu Ling, Ying Chen

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9 authors.

Jing WangWisdom Lake Academy of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China.ORCID 0009-0009-0612-5262
Qiaochu XuWisdom Lake Academy of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China.ORCID 0009-0006-5136-9969
Rong RongDepartment of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70112, USA.
Bingjie QuWisdom Lake Academy of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Xiang ShiDepartment of Biology, School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Bin HuKey Lab for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials and Nanosafety, Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5642-8300
Peng ZhaoDepartment of Health and Environmental Sciences, School of Science, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5267-9797
Chengxiu LingWisdom Lake Academy of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China.
Ying ChenWisdom Lake Academy of Pharmacy, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China.ORCID 0000-0002-5919-743X

Funding

Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Research Development Fund-22-01-012
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Air pollution has been one of the major threats to public health. The study aimed to determine latent patterns of geographical distribution of health-related air pollutants across the USA and to evaluate real-world cumulative effects of these patterns on public health metrics. It was an ecological study using county-level data on the concentrations of 12 air pollutants over 20 years. Latent class analysis was used to identify the common clusters of life expectancy-associated air pollutants based on their concentration characteristics in the final counties studied (

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air pollutionepidemiologygeographical patternhealth inequalitylatent class analysis

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PMID41598330
PMCPMC12842859

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