PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Diana A. van der Plaat
AU  - Aino K. Rantala
AU  - Sheikh M. Alif
AU  - Dilek Karadoğan
AU  - Yutong Cai
AU  - Orianne Dumas
TI  - ERS International Congress 2020: highlights from the Epidemiology and Environment Assembly
AID  - 10.1183/23120541.00849-2020
DP  - 2021 Jan 01
TA  - ERJ Open Research
PG  - 00849-2020
VI  - 7
IP  - 1
4099  - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/7/1/00849-2020.short
4100  - http://openres.ersjournals.com/content/7/1/00849-2020.full
SO  - erjor2021 Jan 01; 7
AB  - In this article, early career members of the Epidemiology and Environment Assembly of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) summarise a selection of five sessions from the ERS 2020 Virtual International Congress. The topics covered include risk factors for chronic respiratory diseases over the life course, from early life origins to occupational exposures in adulthood, and the interplay between these risk factors, including gene–environment interactions. Novel results were also presented on smoking prevention and potential risks of vaping. Finally, the challenges and opportunities for epidemiological and environmental research brought by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic were a major topic of this year's congress.Highlights of #ERSCongress 2020 from the Epidemiology and Environment Assembly https://bit.ly/3ogC1Me