Ambient air pollution and daily mortality in Anshan, China: A time-stratified case-crossover analysis

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 6086-6091

  Chen, Renjie ^a   Pan, Guowei ^b   Kan, Haidong ^a   Tan, Jianguo ^c   Song, Weimin ^a   Wu, Zhenyu ^a   Xu, Xiaohui ^d   Xu, Qun ^e   Jiang, Cheng ^f   Chen, Bingheng ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Liaoning Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^c Shanghai Climate Center   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE OF BASIC MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^f Shanghai Municipal Center of Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Case crossover; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANTS; AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CASE-CROSSOVER; HEALTH EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL CITY; MORTALITY; MOVING AVERAGES; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; SHORT-TERM EXPOSURE; SOCIAL POLICY; WEATHER DATA;

AIR QUALITY;

POLLUTION;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HEALTH IMPACT; MORTALITY; POLLUTION EFFECT; SOCIAL POLICY; URBAN POLLUTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHILD; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLICY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TIME; WEATHER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; CITIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SULFUR DIOXIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

ANSHAN; CHINA; LIAONING;

EID: 77958096445     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.09.018     Document Type: Article

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