Asian dust and daily all-cause or cause-specific mortality in western Japan

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 908-915

  Kashima, Saori ^a   Yorifuji, Takashi ^b   Tsuda, Toshihide ^b   Eboshida, Akira ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BAYES THEOREM; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESERT; DUST; HUMAN; JAPAN; LIGHT; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BAYES THEOREM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CITIES; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; JAPAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PNEUMONIA; SOIL;

EID: 84870054490     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100797     Document Type: Article

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