Long-range transported Asian Dust and emergency ambulance dispatches

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 858-867

  Ueda, Kayo ^a   Shimizu, Atsushi ^a   Nitta, Hiroshi ^a   Inoue, Kenichiro ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b Nagasaki Inoue Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air pollutants; Asian Dust; Emergency ambulance dispatches; Health effect; Lidar; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ALTITUDE; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSTANTS AND COEFFICIENTS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STRESS; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AMBULANCES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; INHALATION EXPOSURE; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; URBAN HEALTH; WEATHER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867183592     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08958378.2012.724729     Document Type: Article

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