Does temperature enhance acute mortality effects of ambient particle pollution in Tianjin City, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 409, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1811-1817

  Li, Guoxing ^a   Zhou, Maigeng ^b   Cai, Yue ^b   Zhang, Yajuan ^a   Pan, Xiaochuan ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Mortality; Particulate matter; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; AMBIENT PARTICLES; ASIAN COUNTRIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; HEALTH IMPACT; HIGH TEMPERATURE; INTERACTIVE EFFECT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MODIFICATION EFFECT; MODIFYING EFFECTS; MORTALITY; MOVING AVERAGES; PARTICULATE MATTER; TIANJIN;

HARMONIC ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

TEMPERATURE;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH IMPACT; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHINA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXHAUST GAS; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATUS; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOW TEMPERATURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHINA; HUMANS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; TEMPERATURE; URBAN POPULATION;

CHINA; TIANJIN;

EID: 79952626931     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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