TY  - JOUR
AU  - Wolf, Kathrin
AU  - Dallavalle, Marco
AU  - Niedermayer, Fiona
AU  - Bolte, Gabriele
AU  - Lakes, Tobia
AU  - Schikowski, Tamara
AU  - Greiser, Karin Halina
AU  - Schwettmann, Lars
AU  - Westerman, Ronny
AU  - Nikolaou, Nikolaos
AU  - Staab, Jeroen
AU  - Wolff, Robert
AU  - Stübs, Gunthard
AU  - Rach, Stefan
AU  - Schneider, Alexandra
AU  - Peters, Annette
AU  - Hoffmann, Barbara
TI  - Environmental exposure assessment in the German National Cohort (NAKO).
JO  - Environmental research
VL  - 273
SN  - 0013-9351
CY  - San Diego, Calif.
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - DKFZ-2025-00468
SP  - 121259
PY  - 2025
AB  - We aimed to assess the exposure to multiple environmental indicators and compare the spatial variation across participants of the German National Cohort (NAKO) to lay the foundation for health analyses. We collected highly resolved German-wide data to capture the following environmental drivers: urbanisation by population density; outdoor air pollution by particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone; road traffic noise; meteorology by air temperature, relative humidity; and the built environment by greenspace and land cover. All assessed exposures were assigned to the NAKO participants based on their baseline residential addresses. The NAKO study regions ranged from highly urbanised areas (Berlin, Hamburg) to rural regions (Neubrandenburg). This large variation is reflected in the individual environmental exposures at the place of residence. In 2019, annual PM2.5 and NO2 levels ranged from 6.0-14.6 and 3.7-33.6 μg/m3, respectively. Annual mean air temperature ranged between 7.8-12.7 °C. Noise data was available for a subset of urban residents (22 
KW  - Environmental epidemiology (Other)
KW  - air pollution (Other)
KW  - greenspace (Other)
KW  - noise (Other)
KW  - population-based cohort (Other)
KW  - risk factors (Other)
KW  - temperature (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:40023386
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2025.121259
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/299510
ER  -