Healthy women's PEF variations with ambient summer concentrations of PM10, PM2.5, So42-, H+, and O3

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-125

  Naeher, Luke P ^a   Holford, Theodore R ^c   Beckett, William S ^c   Belanger, Kathleen ^c   Triche, Elizabeth W ^c   Bracken, Michael B ^c   Leaderer, Brian P ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZONE; PROTON; SULFATE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032784176     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.160.1.9808153     Document Type: Article

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