Commentary: Nitrogen dioxide and asthma redux
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Commentary: nitrogen dioxide and asthma redux.
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2), a combustion-generated oxidant gas, is widely present in indoor and outdoor environments. Outdoors, where it comes primarily from combustion engines, industry, and power generation, it is a precursor to particles and ozone. Indoors, NO2 is generated by gas cooking and heating, and it exists as a gas along with other oxides of nitrogen. Many epidemiological studies have e...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1464-3685
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyh045