Effective strategies for population studies of acute air pollution health effects.
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Effective strategies for population studies of acute air pollution health effects.
A series of field studies involving repetitive functional measurements in relatively small populations of healthy children and adults engaged in normal outdoor activities has shown that significant decrements in respiratory function are associated with exposures to ozone (O3) at concentrations below the national ambient air quality standard. The ability to detect such effects can be attributed,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.8981115