Particulate air pollution as a predictor of mortality in a prospective study of U.S. adults.

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Published in Am J Respir Crit Care Med on March 01, 1995

Authors

C A Pope1, M J Thun, M M Namboodiri, D W Dockery, J S Evans, F E Speizer, C W Heath

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

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