Personal and ambient PM2.5 exposure assessment in the city of Agra.
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SUBMITTER: Habil M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4716460 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
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Personal and ambient PM2.5 exposure assessment in the city of Agra.
Habil M M Massey D D DD Taneja A A
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Human exposure to fine particles can have significant harmful effects on the respiratory and cardiovascular system. To investigate daily exposure characteristics to PM2.5 with ambient concentrations in an urban environment, a personal exposure measurements were conducted for school children, office workers and at their residents, in the city of Taj 'Agra', India. In order to account for all the sources of particulate matter exposure, measurements on several different days during December 2013 to ...[more]
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