Abstract:Background
Associations between levels of various types of airborne particulate matter such as ambient PM2.5 and short-term mortality risk have been studied extensively. A metric called daily exceedance concentration hours (DECH) has been proved useful with respect to better modeling and understanding of acute mortality risk associated with pollution in southern Chinese cities. Notably however, it is unclear whether the strength of the association is timedependent. The current study investigated this using a … Show more
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