Reproduction of "Racial/ethnic disparities in PM2.5-attributable cardiovascular mortality burden in the United States"

This is an official collaboration between I4R and NHB: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01818-7. The reproduction report is available under Files. Associated codes here: https://github.com/samsiljee/PM2.5_CVD_mortality_US/ Author's response: "We very much appreciate your report and agree that it is impossible to replicate the work without the mortality data. We were glad that the codes we shared were useful and that the exposure maps can be replicated. We are grateful for your conclusion that our original analysis is rigorous. Regarding the suggestion on testing the racial and ethnic disparities for short-term, daily exposures to PM2.5, we very much agree that this needs to be done. However, I want to point out that (1) the short-term exposure’s acute effects are not the same as the long-term exposure’s effect; for PM2.5, the long-term exposure’s effect is usually much larger than the short-term exposure’s effect; (2) the mortality data we used was restricted in the temporal resolution that the exact date of death information was not available, so such additional analysis was not possible."