Indoor air pollutants and health in the United Arab Emirates

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 687-694

  Yeatts, Karin B ^a   El Sadig, Mohamed ^b   Leith, David ^c   Kalsbeek, William ^a   Al Maskari, Fatma ^b   Couper, David ^a   Funk, William E ^d   Zoubeidi, Taoufik ^b   Chan, Ronna L ^a   Trent, Chris ^c   Davidson, Christopher A ^c   Boundy, Maryanne G ^c   Kassab, Maamoon M ^e   Hasan, Mohamed Y ^b   Rusyn, Ivan ^c   Gibson, Jacqueline MacDonald ^c   Olshan, Andrew F ^a  

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

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

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e National Bureau of Statistics   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Asthma; Incense; Indoor air pollutants; Neurologic; Respiratory

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; FORMALDEHYDE; HYDROGEN SULFIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR MONITORING; AIR QUALITY CONTROL; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHILD; CONCENTRATION LOSS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIZZINESS; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES; WHEEZING;

EID: 84861091859     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1104090     Document Type: Article

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