The role of ambient ozone in epidemiologic studies of heat-related mortality

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1627-1630

  Reid, Colleen E ^a   Snowden, Jonathan M ^a,b   Kontgis, Caitlin ^c   Tager, Ira B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Confounding variables; Epidemiology; Extreme heat; Mortality; Ozone

Indexed keywords

OZONE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPH; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEAT INJURY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AIR POLLUTANTS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EXTREME HEAT; MORTALITY; OZONE;

EID: 84870523104     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205251     Document Type: Article

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