Open AccessA Cancer Risk Assessment of Inner-City Teenagers Living in New York City and Los Angeles
Author(s) -
Sonja N. Sax,
Deborah H. Bennett,
Steven N. Chillrud,
James Ross,
Patrick L. Kinney,
John D. Spengler
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.8507
Subject(s) - environmental health , population , environmental science , aerodynamic diameter , air pollution , toxicology , medicine , demography , aerosol , geography , meteorology , chemistry , organic chemistry , biology , sociology
The Toxics Exposure Assessment Columbia-Harvard (TEACH) project assessed exposures and cancer risks from urban air pollutants in a population of high school teenagers in New York City (NYC) and Los Angeles (LA). Forty-six high school students participated in NYC and 41 in LA, most in two seasons in 1999 and 2000, respectively.