Fine-particulate air pollution and life expectancy in the United States.

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Published in N Engl J Med on January 22, 2009

Authors

C Arden Pope1, Majid Ezzati, Douglas W Dockery

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Economics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602-2363, USA. cap3@byu.edu

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