Ambient air pollution: How much of estimated "prenatal exposure" is truly attributable to pre-birth exposures?

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¹ Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany; Allergy and Lung Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Comprehensive Pneumology Centre Munich, German Centre for Lung Research, Germany. Electronic address: Joachim.heinrich@med.uni-muenchen.de.
² Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.

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Joachim Heinrich et al. Environ Res. 2018 Aug.

. 2018 Aug:165:442-443.

doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.12.002. Epub 2017 Dec 8.

¹ Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital of Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany; Allergy and Lung Health Unit, Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Comprehensive Pneumology Centre Munich, German Centre for Lung Research, Germany. Electronic address: Joachim.heinrich@med.uni-muenchen.de.
² Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany.

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