Health effects of acid aerosols on North American children: Pulmonary function

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 506-514

  Raizenne, Mark ^a,b   Neas, Lucas M ^a,c   Damokosh, Andrew I ^a   Dockery, Douglas W ^a,c   Spengler, John D ^a   Koutrakis, Petros ^a   Ware, James H ^a   Speizer, Frank E ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acid aerosols; Air pollution; Children; Pulmonary function

Indexed keywords

ACID;

AEROSOL; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GROWTH; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; METEOROLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0029973357     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.96104506     Document Type: Article

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