Indoor exposures and acute respiratory effects in two general population samples from a rural and an urban area in Italy

Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 14, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2004, Pages

  Simoni, Marzia ^a   Scognamiglio, Antonio ^a   Carrozzi, Laura ^b   Baldacci, Sandra ^a   Angino, Anna ^a   Pistelli, Francesco ^b   Di Pede, Francesco ^b   Viegi, Giovanni ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory effects; Daily activity pattern; Epidemiological study; Indoor pollution; Nitrogen dioxide; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FEVER; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; POPULATION RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING HABIT; URBAN AREA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RURAL POPULATION; SEASONS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 2542471486     PISSN: 10534245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jea.7500368     Document Type: Conference Paper

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