The MEDEA childhood asthma study design for mitigation of desert dust health effects: implementation of novel methods for assessment of air pollution exposure and lessons learned

• Päätekijät: Panayiotis Kouis (Tekijä), Stefania I. Papatheodorou (Tekijä), Maria G. Kakkoura (Tekijä), Nicos Middleton (Tekijä), Emmanuel Galanakis (Tekijä), Eleni Michaelidi (Tekijä), Souzana Achilleos (Tekijä), Nikolaos Mihalopoulos (Tekijä), Marina Neophytou (Tekijä), Gerasimos Stamatelatos (Tekijä), Christos Kaniklides (Tekijä), Efstathios Revvas (Tekijä), Filippos Tymvios (Tekijä), Chrysanthos Savvides (Tekijä), Petros Koutrakis (Tekijä), Panayiotis K. Yiallouros (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: BMC, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Desert dust events in Mediterranean countries, originating mostly from the Sahara and Arabian deserts, have been linked to climate change and are associated with significant increase in mortality and hospital admissions from respiratory causes. The MEDEA clinical intervention stu...