December 9, 1993Open Access

An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities

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Although the effects of other, unmeasured risk factors cannot be excluded with certainty, these results suggest that fine-particulate air pollution, or a more complex pollution mixture associated with fine particulate matter, contributes to excess mortality in certain U.S. cities.

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Douglas W. Dockery

C. Arden Pope

Xiping Xu

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New England Journal of Medicine

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Harvard University

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Brigham Young University

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www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69d68a33a70b37cec732f679 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199312093292401

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An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities

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