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Comment
. 2019 Apr;127(4):44003.
doi: 10.1289/EHP4807.

Exposures in the City: Looking for Socioeconomic Patterns for the Urban Exposome

Jori Lewis
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Exposures in the City: Looking for Socioeconomic Patterns for the Urban Exposome

Jori Lewis. Environ Health Perspect. 2019 Apr.
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Photograph of a young woman walking a dog down a sidewalk in an affluent London neighborhood
A new paper illustrates how risk factors and predictors of environmental exposures vary among different countries and cities. For example, the association between lower socioeconomic status and higher air pollution that is reported fairly consistently in the United States is flipped in some European locations, where exposures are higher among wealthier groups. Image: © LeoPatrizi/iStockphoto.
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