Airborne Acidity: Estimates of Exposure and Human Health Effects
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Airborne acidity: estimates of exposure and human health effects.
Human health effects have resulted from the inhalation of ambient acidic aerosols, and there is suggestive evidence that current North American levels of exposure are producing excesses in respiratory morbidity. Annual mean mortality rates have been correlated with ambient aerosol concentration indices, with SO4(2-), FP, IP, and TSP having a descending order as predictive coefficients. These po...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1985
ISSN: 0091-6765
DOI: 10.2307/3430030