Airborne particulate matter and mortality: Timescale effects in four US cities

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 157, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1055-1065

  Dominici, Francesca ^a   McDermott, Aidan ^a   Zeger, Scott L ^a   Samet, Jonathan M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Fourier analysis; Hierarchical model; Mortality; Poisson distribution; Time factors; Time series

Indexed keywords

HEALTH IMPACT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; URBAN POLLUTION; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHICAGO; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MINNESOTA; MORTALITY; PENNSYLVANIA; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037977808     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwg087     Document Type: Article

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