Air pollution and mortality in the medicare population

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 376, Issue 26, 2017, Pages 2513-2522

  Di, Qian ^a   Wang, Yan ^a   Zanobetti, Antonella ^a   Wang, Yun ^a   Koutrakis, Petros ^a   Choirat, Christine ^a   Dominici, Francesca ^a   Schwartz, Joel D ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZONE; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH INSURANCE ELIGIBILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RISK; OPEN STUDY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ANCESTRY GROUP; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; PREMATURE MORTALITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY, PREMATURE; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85021641078     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1702747     Document Type: Article

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