Open AccessEstimating Personal Exposures from Ambient Air Pollution Measures
Author(s) -
Katelyn M. Holliday,
Christy L. Avery,
Charles Poole,
Kathleen A. McGraw,
Williams Rt,
Duanping Liao,
Richard L. Smith,
Eric A. Whitsel
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0000000000000006
Subject(s) - confidence interval , standard deviation , medicine , funnel plot , extant taxon , demography , statistics , publication bias , environmental health , mathematics , biology , evolutionary biology , sociology
Although ambient concentrations of particulate matter ≤10 μm (PM10) are often used as proxies for total personal exposure, correlation (r) between ambient and personal PM10 concentrations varies. Factors underlying this variation and its effect on health outcome-PM exposure relationships remain poorly understood.