Relation between airborne pollen concentrations and daily cardiovascular and respiratory-disease mortality

Lancet

Volumn 355, Issue 9214, 2000, Pages 1517-1518

  Brunekreef, Bert ^a   Hoek, Gerard ^a   Fischer, Paul ^b   Spieksma, Frits Th M ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PNEUMONIA; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE;

EID: 0034728948     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(00)02168-1     Document Type: Article

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