Tiny Particles, Big Health Impacts

John R Balmes^{1

2}, Nadia N Hansel³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California.
² School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California.
³ Department of Medicine Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland.

Editorial

John R Balmes et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024.

. 2024 Dec 1;210(11):1291-1292.

doi: 10.1164/rccm.202407-1476ED.

John R Balmes^{1

2}, Nadia N Hansel³

¹ Department of Medicine University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, California.
² School of Public Health University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California.
³ Department of Medicine Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland.

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