Archives of environmental health
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Arch. Environ. Health · Jan 1998
Comparative StudyShort-term effects of air pollution on hospital admissions of respiratory diseases in Europe: a quantitative summary of APHEA study results. Air Pollution and Health: a European Approach.
The Air Pollution and Health: a European Approach (APHEA) project is a coordinated study of the short-term effects of air pollution on mortality and hospital admissions. Five West European cities (i.e., London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Paris, Milano) contributed several years of hospital admissions data for all respiratory causes. In the current study, the authors describe the results obtained from the quantitative pooling (meta-analysis) of local analyses. ⋯ The ozone results were in good agreement with the results of similar U. S. studies. The coherence of the results of this study and other results gained under different conditions strengthens the argument for causality.