Abbreviations in EBoDE

EBoDE project

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• ALRI Acute lower respiratory infection
• AM Arithmetic mean
• BOD Burden of disease
• B-Pb Blood lead concentration
• COPD Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; group of related pulmonary diseases, most common form chronic bronchitis
• DALY Disability adjusted life year; burden of disease metric that combines years of life lost and years lived with disabilities (DALY=YLL+YLD)
• dB(A) Decibel (A-frequency weighing). Measure of noise level
• DW Disability weight, parameter used in defining magnitude associated with years lived with disability
• EBD Environmental burden of disease; BoD associated with defined environmental causes
• END European Noise Directive
• ERF Exposure-response function
• GBD Global Burden of Disease (WHO assessment)
• GM Geometric mean
• GSD Geometric standard deviation
• HSD High sleep disturbance; health endpoint associated with environmental noise exposures
• HTD Hypertensive disease
• ICT Impact calculation tool, probabilistic modelling tool run in Analytica environment
• IHD Ischaemic heart disease
• IQ Intelligence quotient
• L(day) Weighted noise level for daytime
• L(den) Weighted noise level for day-evening-night
• LE Life expectancy
• L(night) Weighted noise level for nighttime
• LRS Lower respiratory symptoms
• MI Myocardial infarction
• MMR Mild mental retardation
• MRAD Minor restricted activity days; health outcome defined in CAFE study for ozone
• OR Odds ratio
• PAF Population attributable fraction
• PCB Polychlorinated biphenyls, a chemical group of toxic compounds
• PM(10) Particulate matter with aerodynamic particle diameter smaller than 10 μm
• PM(2.5) Particulate matter with aerodynamic particle diameter smaller than 2.5 μm
• RAD Restricted activity days; health outcome defined in CAFE study for particulate matter
• RR Relative risk expressed either for the prevailing exposure level (in cohort studies) or normalized for a selected unit exposure, e.g. per 10 μg m-3
• SD Standard deviation
• SHS Second hand smoke; sometimes called also environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)
• TEQ Toxicity equivalent; a metric expressing the toxicity of a mixture of dioxins and PCBs as an equivalent amount of the most toxic compound, TCDD (original set of toxicity equivalency factors by WHO 1998, updated in 2005)
• UR Unit risk; population risk per an individual and unit exposure
• YLD Years lived with disability, a component of disease burden measured as DALYs
• YLL Years of life lost, a component of disease burden measured as DALYs