Air pollution and multiple acute respiratory outcomes

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 304-313

  Faustini, Annunziata ^a   Stafoggia, Massimo ^a   Colais, Paola ^a   Berti, Giovanna ^b   Bisanti, Luigi ^c   Cadum, Ennio ^b   Cernigliaro, Achille ^d   Mallone, Sandra ^e   Scarnato, Corrado ^f   Forastiere, Francesco ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b Regional Environmental Protection Agency   (Italy)

^c Local Health Authority   (Italy)

^d Regional Health Authority   (Italy)

^e Centre for Cancer Prevention   (Italy)

^f Local Health Authority   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ITALY; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEX;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84882677826     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00128712     Document Type: Article

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