About the Authors

Alina Vodonos

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

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel

Itzhak Katra

Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel

Helena Krasnov

Affiliation Department of Geography and Environmental Development, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er-Sheva, Israel

Doron Zahger

Affiliation Intensive Cardiac Care Unit, Department of Cardiology, Soroka University Medical Center, Be’er-Sheva, Israel

Joel Schwartz

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Victor Novack

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.