Abstract:South Korea is one of the East Asian countries suffering severe ambient PM2.5 pollution which has been continuously reported to a risk factor driving both death and disability in many parts of the world. We investigated the associations of cause-specific mortality with both PM2.5 chemical constituents and source contributions in four metropolitan cities, namely Seoul, Daejeon, Gwangju and Ulsan, by applying the generalized linear model (GLM) to the results of the positive matrix factorization (PMF) modeling. T… Show more
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