Associations between ambient particulate sulfate and admissions to Ontario hospitals for cardiac and respiratory diseases.

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Published in Am J Epidemiol on July 01, 1995

Authors

R T Burnett1, R Dales, D Krewski, R Vincent, T Dann, J R Brook

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1: Health Protection Branch, Health Canada, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, Ontario.

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