Associations between daily cause-specific mortality and concentrations of ground-level ozone in Montreal, Quebec

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 154, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 817-826

  Goldberg, Mark S ^a   Burnett, Richard T ^b   Brook, Jeffrey ^c   Bailar III, John C ^d   Valois, Marie France ^a   Vincent, Renaud ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cardiovascular diseases; Mortality; Neoplasms; Ozone; Respiratory tract diseases

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; MORTALITY; OZONE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR MONITOR; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WEATHER;

ACCIDENTS; AGE FACTORS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; LINEAR MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; NEOPLASMS; OZONE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUEBEC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS;

CANADA;

EID: 0035500445     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/154.9.817     Document Type: Article

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