The temporal pattern of respiratory and heart disease mortality in response to air pollution

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1188-1193

  Zanobetti, Antonella ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^a   Samoli, Evi ^b   Gryparis, Alexandros ^b   Touloumi, Giota ^b   Peacock, Janet ^c   Anderson, Ross H ^c   Le Tertre, Alain ^d   Bobros, Janos ^e   Celko, Martin ^f   Goren, Ayana ^g   Forsberg, Bertil ^h   Michelozzi, Paola ⁱ   Rabczenko, Daniel ^j   Perez Hoyos, Santiago ^k   Wichmann, H Erich ^l   Katsouyanni, Klea ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Environmental Health Unit   (France)

^e Munic Inst State Pub Hlth O   (Hungary)

^f CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^g TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^h UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ Agency for Public Health   (Italy)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^k Generalitat Valenciana   (Spain)

^l INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Air pollution; Heart disease; Hierarchical models; Lung disease; Mortality displacement

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0043199818     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.5712     Document Type: Review

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