Personal coarse particulate matter exposures in an adult cohort

Atmospheric Environment

Volumn 42, Issue 28, 2008, Pages 6743-6748

  Williams, Ron ^a   Case, Martin ^b   Yeatts, Karin ^c   Chen, Fu Lin ^a   Scott, James ^b   Svendsen, Erik ^d   Devlin, Robert ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse particulate matter; PM10 2.5, personal monitoring

Indexed keywords

COARSE PARTICULATE MATTER; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; NORTH CAROLINA; PM10-2.5, PERSONAL MONITORING; SIZE FRACTIONS;

ADULT; AIR MASS; ASTHMA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GRAVIMETRY; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COARSE PARTICULATE MATTER; COMMUNITY; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; GRAVIMETRY; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERSONAL MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 51349159537     PISSN: 13522310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2008.05.034     Document Type: Article

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