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Bertil Forsberg

Bertil Forsberg

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Medicine

D-Index
102
Citations
44793
World Ranking
7573
National Ranking
151

Overview

Bertil Forsberg is affiliated with Umeå University in Sweden and has contributed extensively to the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis. Their research spans several related subfields including General Health Professions, Physiology, Speech and Hearing, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine.

The primary topics of Forsberg's work include:

  • Air Quality and Health Impacts
  • Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Asthma and respiratory diseases
  • Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
  • Energy and Environment Impacts

Forsberg's recent significant publications include:

  • "The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change", 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • "Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study", 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "Mortality risk attributable to wildfire-related PM2·5 pollution: a global time series study in 749 locations", 2021, The Lancet Planetary Health
  • "Short term association between ozone and mortality: global two stage time series study in 406 locations in 20 countries", 2020, BMJ
  • "Short term associations of ambient nitrogen dioxide with daily total, cardiovascular, and respiratory mortality: multilocation analysis in 398 cities", 2021, BMJ

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Forsberg include:

  • Hans Orru
  • Yuming Guo
  • Antonio Gasparrini
  • Aurelio Tobías
  • Carmen Íñiguez

Forsberg has published frequently in journals such as:

  • Environment International
  • The Lancet Planetary Health
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • ISEE Conference Abstracts
  • Environmental Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Masahiro Hashizume;Eric Lavigne

  • Air pollution and lung cancer incidence in 17 European cohorts : Prospective analyses from the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE)

    Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen;Rob Beelen;Evangelia Samoli

  • Ambient Particulate Air Pollution and Daily Mortality in 652 Cities

    Cong Liu;Renjie Chen;Francesco Sera;Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera

  • Effects of long-term exposure to air pollution on natural-cause mortality : An analysis of 22 European cohorts within the multicentre ESCAPE project

    Rob Beelen;Ole Raaschou-Nielsen;Massimo Stafoggia;Zorana Jovanovic Andersen

  • Chronic rhinosinusitis in Europe : an underestimated disease. A GA²LEN study

    D Hastan;WJ Fokkens;Claus Bachert;RB Newson

  • The burden of heat-related mortality attributable to recent human-induced climate change

    A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera;A. M. Vicedo-Cabrera;N. Scovronick;F. Sera;F. Sera;D. Royé

  • Epidemiological evidence of effects of coarse airborne particles on health

    B. Brunekreef;B. Forsberg

  • Acute effects of particulate air pollution on respiratory admissions - Results from APHEA 2 project

    RW Atkinson;HR Anderson;J Sunyer;J Ayres

  • Projections of temperature-related excess mortality under climate change scenarios

    Antonio Gasparrini;Yuming Guo;Yuming Guo;Francesco Sera;Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera

  • Effects of Cold Weather on Mortality: Results From 15 European Cities Within the PHEWE Project

    Antonis Analitis;Klea Katsouyanni;Annibale Biggeri;Michela Baccini

  • Global, regional, and national burden of mortality associated with non-optimal ambient temperatures from 2000 to 2019: a three-stage modelling study

    Qi Zhao;Qi Zhao;Yuming Guo;Tingting Ye;Antonio Gasparrini

  • High Temperature and Hospitalizations for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Causes in 12 European Cities

    Paola Michelozzi;Gabriele Accetta;Manuela De Sario;Daniela D'Ippoliti

  • Asthma in adults and its association with chronic rhinosinusitis: The GA2LEN survey in Europe

    Deborah Jarvis;Roger Newson;Jan Lotvall;Deniz Hastan

  • Acute effects of ozone on mortality from the "air pollution and health: a European approach" project.

    A Gryparis;B Forsberg;K Katsouyanni;A Analitis

  • Short-term effects of particulate air pollution on cardiovascular diseases in eight European cities

    A Le Tertre;S Medina;E Samoli;B Forsberg

  • A joint ERS/ATS policy statement: what constitutes an adverse health effect of air pollution? An analytical framework

    George D. Thurston;Howard Kipen;Isabella Annesi-Maesano;John Balmes;John Balmes

  • Adult lung function and long-term air pollution exposure. ESCAPE: a multicentre cohort study and meta-analysis

    Martin Adam;Martin Adam;Tamara Schikowski;Anne Elie Carsin;Yutong Cai

  • The temporal pattern of respiratory and heart disease mortality in response to air pollution.

    Antonella Zanobetti;Joel Schwartz;Evi Samoli;Alexandros Gryparis

  • Heatwave early warning systems and adaptation advice to reduce human health consequences of heatwaves.

    Dianne Lowe;Kristie L. Ebi;Bertil Forsberg

  • Short-term effects of nitrogen dioxide on mortality: an analysis within the APHEA project

    E Samoli;E Aga;G Touloumi;K Nisiotis

Frequent Co-Authors

Christer Janson
Christer Janson Uppsala University
Cecilie Svanes
Cecilie Svanes University of Bergen
Deborah Jarvis
Deborah Jarvis Imperial College London
Joachim Heinrich
Joachim Heinrich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Thorarinn Gislason
Thorarinn Gislason University of Iceland
Nino Künzli
Nino Künzli University of Basel
Torben Sigsgaard
Torben Sigsgaard Aarhus University
Nicole Probst-Hensch
Nicole Probst-Hensch Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Klea Katsouyanni
Klea Katsouyanni National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Ming-Yi Tsai
Ming-Yi Tsai University of Washington

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