Fine particulate air pollution and mortality in nine California counties: Results from CALFINE

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-33

  Ostro, Bart ^a   Broadwin, Rachel ^a   Green, Shelley ^a   Feng, Wen Ying ^b   Lipsett, Michael ^c  

^a California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; California; Fine particles; Mortality; Particulate matter; PM2.5

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CALIFORNIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 30344449503     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8335     Document Type: Article

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