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Chronic Exposure to Fine Particles and Mortality: An Extended Follow-up of the Harvard Six Cities Study from 1974 to 2009
Environmental Health Perspectives · 2012 · Vol. 120(7) · pp. 965–970
Johanna Lepeule✉(Massachusetts Department of Public Health)Francine Laden(Brigham and Women's Hospital)Douglas W. Dockery(Brigham and Women's Hospital)Joel Schwartz(Brigham and Women's Hospital)
Abstract
These results suggest that further public policy efforts that reduce fine particulate matter air pollution are likely to have continuing public health benefits.
Air Quality and Health ImpactsClimate Change and Health ImpactsEnergy and Environment ImpactsPoisson regressionConfidence intervalDemographyAerodynamic diameterMedicineLinear regressionPublic healthPoisson distributionAir pollutionEnvironmental health
MeSH terms
Air PollutionCitiesHumansLung NeoplasmsPublic HealthProportional Hazards ModelsParticulate Matter
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- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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