Effect of exposure to traffic on lung development from 10 to 18 years of age: a cohort study

Lancet

Volumn 369, Issue 9561, 2007, Pages 571-577

  Gauderman, W James ^a   Vora, Hita ^a   McConnell, Rob ^a   Berhane, Kiros ^a   Gilliland, Frank ^a   Thomas, Duncan ^a   Lurmann, Fred ^b   Avol, Edward ^a   Kunzli, Nino ^c   Jerrett, Michael ^d   Peters, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SONOMA TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^c INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; EXPOSURE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAFFIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846959458     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)60037-3     Document Type: Article

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