Low-level air pollution and hospital admissions for cardiac and cerebrovascular diseases in Helsinki

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 86, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1273-1280

  Pönkä, Antti ^a   Virtanen, Mikko ^a  

^a Helsinki City of the Environment   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FINLAND; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0029788797     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.86.9.1273     Document Type: Article

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