Ambient Air Pollution and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review of Epidemiologic Research

Current environmental health reports

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 275-286

  Park, Sung Kyun ^a   Wang, Weiye ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Meta analysis; Nitrogen dioxide; Particulate matters; Systematic review; Type 2 diabetes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924554365     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21965412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40572-014-0017-9     Document Type: Review

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