Particulate air pollution and hospital admissions for cardiorespiratory diseases: are the elderly at greater risk?
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Particulate air pollution and hospital admissions for cardiorespiratory diseases: are the elderly at greater risk?
A systematic literature review suggests that particulate air pollution is associated with daily admissions for both respiratory and cardiac diseases in people aged > 65 yrs. A model of acute effects is proposed which shows how admissions can be brought forward by a relatively short period of time as well as events being added that would not have happened at all except for air pollution. A model...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Respiratory Journal
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0903-1936,1399-3003
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.03.00402203