PM2.5 and mortality in long-term prospective cohort studies: Cause-effect or statistical associations?

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 106, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 535-549

  Gamble, John F ^a  

^a EXXONMOBIL UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Causality; Confounding; Ecological fallacy; Ecological studies; Epidemiology; Particulate matter; Prospective cohort; Smoking; Statistical association

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; AIR POLLUTANT; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAT; SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RATS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKE;

EID: 0031595244     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.98106535     Document Type: Review

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