Ambient air pollution - a cause for COPD ?
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1. Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland 2. University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 3. Health Protection Agency, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, UK 4. MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, St George’s, University of London. 5. MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, King’s College London 6. Health Effects Institute, Boston MA USA 7. MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Imperial College London, UK 8. Inserm, CESP Centre for research in Epidemiology and Population Health, U1018, Respiratory and environmental epidemiology Team, F-94807, Villejuif, France 9. Université Paris Sud 11, UMRS 1018, F-94807,Villejuif, France 10.IUF-Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany 11. Unit of Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. 12. Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology CREAL and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
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