A cohort study of intra-urban variations in volatile organic compounds and mortality, Toronto, Canada

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 183, Issue , 2013, Pages 30-39

  Villeneuve, Paul J ^a,b   Jerrett, Michael ^c   Su, Jason ^c   Burnett, Richard T ^a   Chen, Hong ^e   Brook, Jeffrey ^d   Wheeler, Amanda J ^a   Cakmak, Sabit ^a   Goldberg, Mark S ^f  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e PUBLIC HEALTH ONTARIO   (Canada)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Cohort study; GIS; Mortality; Nitrogen dioxide; Respiratory disease; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND; AIR POLLUTANT;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTION; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT STUDY; GIS; MORTALITY; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ONTARIO; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 84891666921     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2012.12.022     Document Type: Article

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