Confounding and effect modification in the short-term effects of ambient particles on total mortality: Results from 29 European cities within the APHEA2 project

Epidemiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 521-531

  Katsouyanni, Klea ^a   Touloumi, Giota ^a   Samoli, Evangelia ^a   Gryparis, Alexandros ^a   Le Tertre, Alain ^b   Monopolis, Yannis ^a   Rossi, Giuseppe ^c   Zmirou, Denis ^d   Ballester, Ferran ^e   Boumghar, Azedine ^b   Anderson, Hugh Ross ^f   Wojtyniak, Bogdan ^g   Paldy, Anna ^h   Braunstein, Rony ⁱ   Pekkanen, Juha ^j   Schindler, Christian ^k   Schwartz, Joel ^l  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e Generalitat Valenciana   (Spain)

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

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HYGIENE   (Poland)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Hungary)

ⁱ TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^j NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^k SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^l HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

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Author keywords

Air pollution; Ambient particles; Geographic comparisons; Mortality; Poisson regression; Time series

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; EUROPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; CLIMATE; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EUROPE; HUMANS; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SMOKE; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 17944362158     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-200109000-00011     Document Type: Article

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