About the Authors
- Alina Vodonos
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Affiliations Department of Public Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel, Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
- Michael Friger
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Affiliation Department of Public Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
- Itzhak Katra
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Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
- Helena Krasnov
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Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
- Doron Zahger
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Affiliation Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, Department of Cardiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
- Joel Schwartz
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Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Victor Novack
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* E-mail: victorno@clalit.org.il
Affiliation Clinical Research Center, Soroka University Medical Center, Be’er-Sheva, Israel
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AV MF VN. Performed the experiments: AV MF. Analyzed the data: AV MF. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MF VN JS. Wrote the paper: AV VN DZ. Was the initiator of the research question and participated in the design of the exposure analysis: IK. Participated in the collection, processing and analysis of the exposure data: HK.