Personal exposure of adults with cardio respiratory disease to particulate acid and sulfate in saint john, new brunswick, canada

Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 461-468

  Stieb, David M ^a   Brook, Jefiey R ^b   Broder, Iwin ^c   Judek, Stan ^a   Burnett, Richard T ^a   Beveridge, Robert C ^d  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERSONAL MONITOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE;

EID: 0031781327     PISSN: 1047322X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1047322X.1998.10389572     Document Type: Article

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