The adverse effect of low levels of ambient air pollutants on lung function growth in preadolescent children

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 107, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 669-674

  Jedrychowski, Wieslaw ^a   Flak, Elzbieta ^a   Mróz, Elzbieta ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Epidemiology; Lung function growth; Outdoor pollution; Preadolescent children

Indexed keywords

SULFITE; TOBACCO SMOKE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AMBIENT AIR; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FUME; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VOLUME; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; POLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; URBAN AREA;

NICOTIANA TABACUM;

EID: 0032826311     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.99107669     Document Type: Article

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