Acute changes in lung function associated with proximity to a steel plant: A randomized study

Environment International

Volumn 55, Issue , 2013, Pages 15-19

  Dales, Robert ^a   Kauri, Lisa Marie ^a   Cakmak, Sabit ^a   Mahmud, Mamun ^a   Weichenthal, Scott A ^a   Van Ryswyk, Keith ^a   Kumarathasan, Premkumari ^a   Thomson, Errol ^a   Vincent, Renaud ^a   Broad, Gayle ^b   Liu, Ling ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b ALGOMA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Industry; Lung volumes; Spirometry; Sulfur dioxide

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; HOUSING; INDUSTRY; OXIMETERS; SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME IN 1; FUNCTIONAL RESIDUAL CAPACITIES; LUNG VOLUME; OXIDES OF NITROGEN; RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS; SPIROMETRY; STEEL MANUFACTURING; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITIES;

STEELMAKING;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; NITRATE; SODIUM PEROXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFUR TRIOXIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; INDUSTRIAL EMISSION; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EFFECT; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; COLLEGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRY; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RESIDENTIAL AREA;

EID: 84875074318     PISSN: 01604120     EISSN: 18736750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2013.01.014     Document Type: Article

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