Residential proximity to animal feeding operations and mortality among postmenopausal women in the Iowa Women’s Health Study

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Industrialized animal feeding operations (AFOs) are sources of numerous pollutants (e.g., particulates, pathogens, nitrate). Evidence links residential proximity to AFOs to respiratory diseases and cancer incidence, but directions of associations are inconsistent, and no studies have investigated associations with mortality. We examined these relationships in a population-based cohort of postmenopausal women. METHODS: We...