Health effects of diesel exhaust

Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 61-80

  Solomon, Gina M ^a,b   Balmes, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN OXIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ASTHMA; AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER RISK; COUGHING; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXHAUST GAS; HEALTH HAZARD; HEART DISEASE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHARYNX CANCER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOMACH CANCER; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX DISEASE; WHEEZING; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

EID: 0041925218     PISSN: 15260046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1526-0046(02)00058-4     Document Type: Review

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