Short term effects of air pollution on emergency hospital admissions for respiratory disease: Results of the APHEA project in two major cities in The Netherlands, 1977-89

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages

  Schouten, J P ^a   Vonk, J M ^a   De Graaf, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CITY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SUMMER; WINTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; EMERGENCIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ODDS RATIO; OZONE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SMOKE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 0029962939     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.50.suppl_1.s22     Document Type: Review

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