Outdoor particulate matter and childhood asthma admissions in Athens, Greece: A time-series study

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Nastos, Panagiotis T ^a   Paliatsos, Athanasios G ^b   Anthracopoulos, Michael B ^c   Roma, Eleftheria S ^a   Priftis, Kostas N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST ATTICA   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^d PENTELI CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ASTHMA; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CHILD HEALTH; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH RISK; OXIDATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; TIME SERIES;

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASONAL VARIATION; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HOSPITALIZATION; NEWBORN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME;

ATHENS [ATTICA]; ATTICA; GREECE;

ADOLESCENT; AIR POLLUTANTS; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955691564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-9-45     Document Type: Article

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