Satellite-based estimates of long-term exposure to fine particles and association with mortality in elderly Hong Kong residents

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1167-1172

  Wong, Chit Ming ^a   Lai, Hak Kan ^a   Tsang, Hilda ^a   Thach, Thuan Quoc ^a   Neil Thomas, G ^b   Lam, Kin Bong Hubert ^c   Chan, King Pan ^a   Yang, Lin ^a,d   Lau, Alexis K H ^e   Ayres, Jon G ^b   Lee, Siu Yin ^f   Chan, Wai Man ^f   Hedley, Anthony J ^a   Lam, Tai Hing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^e HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^f Standards and Calibration Laboratory   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EMERGENCY CARE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HONG KONG; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

PARTICULATE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HONG KONG; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84941303277     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408264     Document Type: Article

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