A study of health effect estimates using competing methods to model personal exposures to ambient PM2.5

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 549-558

  Strand, Matthew ^a   Hopke, Philip K ^b   Zhao, Weixiang ^c   Vedal, Sverre ^d   Gelfand, Erwin ^a   Rabinovitch, Nathan ^a  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of California   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Extrapolation; Lung function; Particulate matter; Positive matrix factorization; Regression calibration

Indexed keywords

IRON; SULFATE;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; LUNG FUNCTION; METHODOLOGY; MONITOR; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; IRON; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SULFATES;

EID: 34548667208     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jes.7500568     Document Type: Article

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