The impact of secondary particles on the association between ambient ozone and mortality

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 453-458

  Franklin, Meredith ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Confounding; Meta analysis; Mortality; Nitrate; Organic carbon; Ozone; PM2.5; Secondary pollutants; Sulfates; Time series

Indexed keywords

NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; OZONE; SULFATE;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; HUMANS; MORTALITY; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SULFATES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 45249120307     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.10777     Document Type: Article

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