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Acute Effects of Ambient Particulate matter on mortality in Europe and North America: Results from the APHENA Study [1]

The APHENA (Air Pollution and Health: A Combined European and North American Approach) study is a collaborative analysis of multicity time-series data on the effect of air pollution on population health, bringing together data from the European APHEA (Air Pollution and Health: A European Approach) and U.S. NMMAPS (National Morbidity, Mortality and Air Pollution Study) projects, along with Canadian data. The main objective of APHENA was to assess the coherence of the findings of the multicity studies carried out in Europe and North America, when analyzed with a common protocol, and to explore sources of possible heterogeneity.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2008
Evangelia Samoli [2], Roger Peng [3], Tim Ramsay & et al [4]
Environmental Health Perspectives [5]
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Air Pollution [6], Health Effects [7], Canada [8], RSPM (PM 10) [9], Europe [10], N C America [11], United States Of America (US) [12]
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