Survival analysis to estimate association between short-term mortality and air pollution

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 242-247

  Lepeule, Johanna ^a,b,d   Rondeau, Virginie ^a,b   Filleul, Laurent ^c   Dartigues, Jean Francois ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b Inst Federatif de Rech de S Pub   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE VEILLE SANITAIRE   (France)

^d LUNAM UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cox proportional hazards model; Distributed lag; Mortality; Short term effect

Indexed keywords

SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFLUENZA; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; SEASON; SMOKE; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 32044433345     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8311     Document Type: Article

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