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Erratum to: Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a cohort study: effects of total and traffic-specific air pollution

Environmental Health volume 15, Article number: 45 (2016) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 19 June 2015

Unfortunately, the original version of this article [1] contained an error. The paragraph of the results starting with “The relative risks…” contained errors in the reported effect estimates and confidence intervals.

The paragraph read:

The relative risks from the unadjusted crude model and for the main model are shown in Table 2. When expressing RRs per IQR, exposure to total PM10 was related to an increase in type 2 diabetes incidence of 20 % (RR of 1.20, 95 %-CI: 1.01;1.31) in the main model. The corresponding RR for PM2.5 was 1.11 (95 %-CI: 0.99;1.23). For traffic-specific PM, the estimates for this measure of population distribution of exposures were similar with a RR of 1.11 (95 %-CI: 0.99;1.17) for PM10TRA and a RR of 1.10 (0.99;1.23) for PM2.5TRA.

But it should have read:

The relative risks from the unadjusted crude model and for the main model are shown in Table 2. When expressing RRs per IQR, exposure to total PM10 was related to an increase in type 2 diabetes incidence of 20 % (RR of 1.20, 95 %-CI: 1.01;1.42) in the main model. The corresponding RR for PM2.5 was 1.08 (95 %-CI: 0.89;1.29). For traffic- specific PM, the estimates for this measure of population distribution of exposures were similar with a RR of 1.11 (95 %-CI: 0.99;1.23) for PM10TRA and a RR of 1.10 (0.99;1.23) for PM2.5TRA.

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  1. Weinmayr G, Hennig F, Fuks K, Nonnemacher M, Jakobs H, Möhlenkamp S, et al. Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a cohort study: Effects of total and traffic-specific air pollution. Environ Health. 2015;14:53. doi:10.1186/s12940-015-0031-x.

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    1. IUF - Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany

      Gudrun Weinmayr, Frauke Hennig, Kateryna Fuks & Barbara Hoffmann

    2. Medical School, Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

      Gudrun Weinmayr & Barbara Hoffmann

    3. Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

      Michael Nonnemacher, Karl-Heinz Jöckel & Susanne Moebus

    4. Rhenish Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

      Hermann Jakobs

    5. Department of Cardiology, West German Heart Centre of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

      Stefan Möhlenkamp & Raimund Erbel

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    Weinmayr, G., Hennig, F., Fuks, K. et al. Erratum to: Long-term exposure to fine particulate matter and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in a cohort study: effects of total and traffic-specific air pollution. Environ Health 15, 45 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12940-016-0128-x

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