Indoor and outdoor air concentrations of BTEX and determinants in a cohort of one-year old children in Valencia, Spain

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 63-69

  Esplugues, Ana ^a,b,c   Ballester, Ferran ^a,b,c   Estarlich, Marisa ^a,b   Llop, Sabrina ^a,d   Fuentes Leonarte, Virginia ^a   Mantilla, Enrique ^e   Iñiguez, Carmen ^a,b  

^a CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^b Centre for Public Health Research CSISP   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^e FUNDACIÓN CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AMBIENTALES DEL MEDITERRÁNEO CEAM   (Spain)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Indoor; Infant; Outdoor; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE CONCENTRATION; COMMONLY USED; INDOOR; INFANT; ORTHO XYLENES; OUTDOOR; OUTDOOR AIR CONCENTRATION; OUTDOOR CONCENTRATIONS; PARA-XYLENE; PASSIVE SAMPLERS; SOCIODEMOGRAPHICS; TOXIC COMPOUNDS; URBAN ZONES; VALENCIA; VOLATILE ORGANIC;

AIR QUALITY; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BENZENE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ETHYLBENZENE; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; POLLUTION; TOLUENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; XYLENE;

HEALTH RISKS;

BENZENE; ETHYLBENZENE; META XYLENE; ORTHO XYLENE; PARA XYLENE; TOLUENE;

AIR CONDITIONING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BENZENE; BTEX; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); INDOOR AIR; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LIFESTYLE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPAIN; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; BENZENE; BENZENE DERIVATIVES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPAIN; TOLUENE; XYLENES;

COMUNIDAD VALENCIA; SPAIN;

EID: 78149358685     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.09.039     Document Type: Article

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