Front-door concentrations and personal exposures of Danish children to nitrogen dioxide

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 964-970

  Raaschou Nielsen, Ole ^a,b   Skov, Henrik ^b,c   Lohse, Christian ^b,d   Thomsen, Birthe L ^a   Olsen, Joørgen H ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Denmark)

^b Danish Environ Research Program   (Denmark)

^c NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Children; Exposure; Nitrogen dioxide; Traffic

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHILD; DENMARK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HOME; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NORMAL HUMAN; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0030842207     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.97105964     Document Type: Article

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