Reassessing the relationship between ozone and short-term mortality in U.S. urban communities

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 21, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2009, Pages 37-61

  Smith, Richard L ^a   Xu, Baowei ^a   Switzer, Paul ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Confounding; Effect modifiers; Exposure response relationship; Multi city time series; NMMAPS; Ozone metric; Regional and spatial variability

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; OZONE LAYER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; OZONE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; URBAN HEALTH; WEATHER;

EID: 70350641868     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370903161612     Document Type: Article

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