Poor People of Color Breathe Poor Air

John R Balmes^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and.
² Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

Editorial

John R Balmes. Ann Am Thorac Soc. 2025 May.

. 2025 May;22(5):667-668.

doi: 10.1513/AnnalsATS.202503-258ED.

John R Balmes^{1

2}

¹ Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; and.
² Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California.

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Ambient Air Pollution and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: The Multiethnic Cohort Study.
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