Mortality and life expectancy of Yokkaichi Asthma patients, Japan: Late effects of air pollution in 1960-70s

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Guo, Peng ^a   Yokoyama, Kazuhito ^a   Suenaga, Masami ^b   Kida, Hirotaka ^a  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MORTALITY; ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTANT; CHILD; INFANT; LIFE TABLE; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; URBAN POPULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAPAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REGISTRIES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 42249100851     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-7-8     Document Type: Article

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