Commentary on the HEI reanalysis of the Harvard six cities study and the American cancer society study of particulate air pollution and mortality

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A

Volumn 66, Issue 16-19, 2003, Pages 1705-1714

  Lipfert, Frederick W ^a  

^a Environmental Consultant   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR PARTICLE CONTROL; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; CANCER MORTALITY; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CITY; CLINICAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DUST EXPOSURE; FOLLOW UP; FUME; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; AIR; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AIR; AIR POLLUTION; AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MORTALITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346275043     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390306443     Document Type: Note

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