Size-fractionated particle number concentrations and daily mortality in a Chinese City

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1174-1178

  Meng, Xia ^a   Ma, Yanjun ^b   Chen, Renjie ^a   Zhou, Zhijun ^a   Chen, Bingheng ^a   Kan, Haidong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CLIMATE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHINA; DEATH; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SEDIMENTATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHINA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SEASONS;

EID: 84884824879     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1206398     Document Type: Article

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