Effects of particulate air pollution exposures

Particle-Lung Interactions

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 671-703

  Dockery, Douglas W ^a   Pope, C Arden ^b   Speizer, Frank E ^c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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