Meteorologically estimated exposure but not distance predicts asthma symptoms in schoolchildren in the environs of a petrochemical refinery: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Community concern about asthma prompted an epidemiological study of children living near a petrochemical refinery in Cape Town, South Africa. Because of resource constraints and the complexity of refinery emissions, neither direct environmental measurements nor modelling of airborne poll...

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Autores principales: White, Neil, teWaterNaude, Jim, van der Walt, Anita, Ravenscroft, Grant, Roberts, Wesley, Ehrlich, Rodney
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19781087
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-069X-8-45

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