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Comment
. 2014 Sep;122(9):A252.
doi: 10.1289/ehp.122-A252.

Assessing the health threat of outdoor air: lung cancer risk of particulate matter exposure

Julia R Barrett
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Assessing the health threat of outdoor air: lung cancer risk of particulate matter exposure

Julia R Barrett. Environ Health Perspect. 2014 Sep.
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The authors of the new review conducted subgroup analyses to see if it mattered whether PM exposure estimates depended on fixed-site monitors versus modeling techniques. It didn’t; estimated associations between exposure and lung cancer were relatively consistent regardless of the method used to estimate individual exposures. © Jon Bower/Loop Images/Corbis
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