Association of lung function with declining ambient air pollution

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 383-387

  Frye, Christian ^a   Hoelscher, Bernd ^a   Cyrys, Josef ^a,b   Wjst, Mathias ^a   Wichmann, H Erich ^a,b   Heinrich, Joachim ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Children; East Germany; Pulmonary function; Repeated cross sectional study

Indexed keywords

SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 0037350227     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.5355     Document Type: Article

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