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Fine particulate air pollution and mortality in nine California counties: results from CALFINEBart Ostro
California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Oakland 94612, and University of California Davis, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:29-33. 2006..Results were generally insensitive to model specification and the type of spline model used. This analysis adds to the growing body of evidence linking PM2.5 with daily mortality...- Air pollution and lung function among susceptible adult subjects: a panel studySusanna Lagorio
National Centre for Epidemiology, Surveillance and Health Promotion, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Viale Regina Elena 299 00161 Rome, Italy
Environ Health 5:11. 2006.... 
The effects of temperature and use of air conditioning on hospitalizationsBart Ostro
California Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, USA
Am J Epidemiol 172:1053-61. 2010..These results demonstrate important effects of temperature on public health and the potential for mitigation...
Coarse and fine particles and daily mortality in the Coachella Valley, California: a follow-up studyB D Ostro
Air Pollution Epidemiology Unit, California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Oakland 94612, USA
J Expo Anal Environ Epidemiol 10:412-9. 2000....- Long-term exposure to constituents of fine particulate air pollution and mortality: results from the California Teachers StudyBart Ostro
California Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Environ Health Perspect 118:363-9. 2010..However, the health impacts of long-term exposure to specific constituents of PM(2.5) (PM with aerodynamic diameter < or = 2.5 microm) have not been explored... - Estimating the mortality effect of the July 2006 California heat waveBart D Ostro
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, 1515 Clay Street, 16th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Environ Res 109:614-9. 2009..In addition, it is useful to provide a comparison of the mortality impact per degree change during heat waves versus high temperatures observed during non-heat wave periods... - The effects of fine particle components on respiratory hospital admissions in childrenBart Ostro
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:475-80. 2009..Less is known about the relative impacts of the specific chemical constituents of particulate matter<2.5 microm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5) on hospital admissions... - The impact of components of fine particulate matter on cardiovascular mortality in susceptible subpopulationsB D Ostro
Air Pollution Epidemiology Section, OEHHA, 1515 Clay St, 16th Floor, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Occup Environ Med 65:750-6. 2008..There is also little information about whether associations between PM2.5 constituents and mortality are modified by socioeconomic and demographic factors... - The effects of components of fine particulate air pollution on mortality in california: results from CALFINEBart Ostro
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, 16th Floor, 1515 Clay St, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Environ Health Perspect 115:13-9. 2007..5 pm in diameter (PM2.5). Little is known, however, about the relative effects of PM2.5 constituents. We examined associations between 19 PM2.5 components and daily mortality in six California counties... - The health benefits of reduced tropospheric ozone in CaliforniaBart D Ostro
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
J Air Waste Manag Assoc 56:1007-21. 2006.... - Characterizing temperature and mortality in nine California countiesRupa Basu
California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Epidemiology 19:138-45. 2008..None has focused on California, where the climate is generally mild and pollution levels tend to be high-an ideal setting to examine the independent effect of temperature from air pollution... - A multicounty analysis identifying the populations vulnerable to mortality associated with high ambient temperature in CaliforniaRupa Basu
Air Pollution Epidemiology Section, California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Epidemiol 168:632-7. 2008..0, 7.9). No differences were found by gender or educational level. To prevent the mortality associated with ambient temperature, persons with cardiovascular disease, the elderly, infants, and Blacks among others should be targeted... - Coarse particles and heart rate variability among older adults with coronary artery disease in the Coachella Valley, CaliforniaMichael J Lipsett
California Department of Health Services, Environmental Health Investigations Branch, Richmond, California 94804 6403, USA
Environ Health Perspect 114:1215-20. 2006..5) was comparable with those observed in several other studies of PM. Elevated levels of ambient PM10-2.5 may adversely affect HRV in older subjects with coronary artery disease... - Residential exposure to traffic and spontaneous abortionRochelle S Green
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Environ Health Perspect 117:1939-44. 2009..Studies have shown associations between air pollution or traffic exposure and adverse birth outcomes, such as low birth weight. However, very few studies have examined the effect of traffic emissions on spontaneous abortion (SAB)... - The effect of temperature on hospital admissions in nine California countiesRochelle S Green
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, 1515 Clay Street, 16th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Int J Public Health 55:113-21. 2010..This study examined the association between mean daily apparent temperature and hospital admissions for several diseases in nine California counties from May to September, 1999 to 2005... - High ambient temperature and the risk of preterm deliveryRupa Basu
California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Air Pollution Epidemiology Section, Oakland, California 94612, USA
Am J Epidemiol 172:1108-17. 2010..These associations were independent of air pollutants. Given the significant associations for apparent temperature and preterm delivery found in this study, more large-scale studies of temperature and preterm delivery are warranted... - Traffic-related air pollution near busy roads: the East Bay Children's Respiratory Health StudyJanice J Kim
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, 1515 Clay Street, 16th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 170:520-6. 2004..Our findings support the hypothesis that traffic-related pollution is associated with respiratory symptoms in children... - Proximity of California public schools to busy roadsRochelle S Green
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, California Environmental Protection Agency, 1515 Clay Street, 16th Floor, Oakland, CA 94612, USA
Environ Health Perspect 112:61-6. 2004..In summary, a substantial number of children in California attend schools close to major roads with very high traffic counts, and a disproportionate number of those students are economically disadvantaged and nonwhite... - Residential traffic and children's respiratory healthJanice J Kim
Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Air Pollution Epidemiology Section, Oakland, California, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:1274-9. 2008..Additionally, most investigations have used surrogates of exposure, and few have measured traffic pollutants directly as part of the study...