Associations of mortality with long-term exposures to fine and ultrafine particles, species and sources: Results from the California teachers study Cohort

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 549-556

  Ostro, Bart ^a   Hu, Jianlin ^b   Goldberg, Debbie ^c   Reynolds, Peggy ^c   Hertz, Andrew ^c   Bernstein, Leslie ^d   Kleeman, Michael J ^b  

^a California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c Cancer Prevention Institute of California   (United States)

^d CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CALCIUM; CARBON; CHROMIUM; COPPER; DIESEL FUEL; GASOLINE; IRON; MANGANESE; NITRATE; POTASSIUM; STRONTIUM; SULFUR; TITANIUM; ZINC; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FINE PARTICLE; HAZARD RATIO; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; ULTRAFINE PARTICLE; UNITED STATES; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; CALIFORNIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; CALIFORNIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84930514062     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408565     Document Type: Article

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