Risk of asthmatic episodes in children exposed to sulfur dioxide stack emissions from a refinery point source in Montreal, Canada

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 653-659

  Smargiassi, Audrey ^a,b   Kosatsky, Tom ^c   Hicks, John ^d   Plante, Céline ^c   Armstrong, Ben ^e   Villeneuve, Paul J ^f   Goudreau, Sophie ^c  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^b IRSPUM   (Canada)

^c Gouvernement du Quebec   (Canada)

^d RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asthma; Case crossover; Children; Dispersion modeling; Emergency department visits; Hospital admissions; Point source; Refinery; Short term exposure; Sulfur dioxide

Indexed keywords

SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANADA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATURE; URBAN AREA;

EID: 64049097547     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800010     Document Type: Article

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