Air pollution and hospital admissions for respiratory causes in Minneapolis-St. Paul and Birmingham

Epidemiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 364-370

  Moolgavkar, Suresh H ^a   Luebeck, E Georg ^a   Anderson, Elizabeth L ^b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and University of Washington   (United States)

^b Sciences International Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon monoxide; Generalized additive models; Nitrogen dioxide; Ozone; Particulate matter; Sulfur dioxide

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ALABAMA; CARBON MONOXIDE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MINNESOTA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PARTICLE SIZE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030957688     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199707000-00003     Document Type: Article

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