Long-Term Exposure to Ozone and Cardiopulmonary Mortality: Epidemiology Strikes Again

John R Balmes^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of MedicineUniversity of California, San FranciscoSan Francisco, Californiaand.
² School of Public HealthUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, California.

Editorial

John R Balmes. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019.

. 2019 Oct 15;200(8):958-959.

doi: 10.1164/rccm.201906-1105ED.

John R Balmes^{1

2}

¹ Department of MedicineUniversity of California, San FranciscoSan Francisco, Californiaand.
² School of Public HealthUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, California.

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Long-Term Exposure to Ozone and Cause-Specific Mortality Risk in the United States.
Lim CC, Hayes RB, Ahn J, Shao Y, Silverman DT, Jones RR, Garcia C, Bell ML, Thurston GD. Lim CC, et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Oct 15;200(8):1022-1031. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201806-1161OC. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019. PMID: 31051079 Free PMC article.

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