Temperature, not Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5), is Causally Associated with Short-Term Acute Daily Mortality Rates: Results from One Hundred United States Cities

• Main Authors: Tony Cox (Author), Douglas Popken (Author), Paolo F Ricci (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: SAGE Publishing, 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Exposures to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in air (C) have been suspected of contributing causally to increased acute (e.g., same-day or next-day) human mortality rates (R). We tested this causal hypothesis in 100 United States cities using the publicly available NMMAPS database. Although a signif...