Short-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution and daily mortality in London, UK

Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 125-132

  Atkinson, Richard W ^a   Analitis, Antonis ^b   Samoli, Evangelia ^b   Fuller, Gary W ^c   Green, David C ^c   Mudway, Ian S ^c   Anderson, Hugh R ^a,c   Kelly, Frank J ^c  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

mortality; short term associations; time series analysis; traffic related pollution

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CITY; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MORTALITY; MOTOR VEHICLE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SOOT; TEMPERATURE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; LONDON; MOTOR VEHICLES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGISTRIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SOOT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84958672188     PISSN: 15590631     EISSN: 1559064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jes.2015.65     Document Type: Article

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