Chronic disease prevalence in women and air pollution - A 30-year longitudinal cohort study.
CONCLUSIONS: This study estimated significant elevated prevalent rate ratios per unit increase in PM2.5 in nine of the ten chronic diseases studied.
PMID: 25863281 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Environment International - Category: Environmental Health Authors: To T, Zhu J, Villeneuve PJ, Simatovic J, Feldman L, Gao C, Williams D, Chen H, Weichenthal S, Wall C, Miller AB Tags: Environ Int Source Type: research
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