Epidemiological evidence of the effects of ultrafine particle exposure

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1775, 2000, Pages 2751-2769

  Wichmann, H Erich ^a,b   Peters, Annette ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases; Fine particles; Mortality; Respiratory diseases; Short term effects; Ultrafine particles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346672501     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2000.0682     Document Type: Article

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