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  • Environmental Epidemiology
  • Geospatial Health
  • Exposure Science

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  • Accurate life course exposure assessment is crucial for understanding environmental health impacts.
  • Existing geospatial methods face challenges with individual mobility, data gaps, and scaling issues.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate methods for creating individual exposure histories.
  • To address challenges in geospatial exposure estimation for a cohort with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and controls.

Main Methods:

  • Enhanced residence history surveys incorporating date and age, accounting for preceding/following residences.
  • Novel spatial multiple imputation for handling missing or incomplete address data.
  • Utilized PM2.5, black carbon, NO2, and traffic intensity geospatial datasets.

Main Results:

  • Residence history completeness improved significantly, capturing a 20-year window for 95% of the cohort.
  • Spatial imputation boosted time history completion to 99% and geocoding success to 92%.
  • PM2.5 and NO2 showed moderate agreement with observed data, but 1km resolution limited fine-scale heterogeneity capture.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed methods substantially improve the completeness, reliability, and accuracy of life course exposure estimates.
  • This study pioneers examination of older cohort mobility for long exposure windows and spatial imputation techniques.
  • The recommended methods offer broad applicability for environmental exposure research.