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SUBMITTER: Rivas I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5008221 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rivas I I Donaire-Gonzalez D D Bouso L L Esnaola M M Pandolfi M M de Castro M M Viana M M Àlvarez-Pedrerol M M Nieuwenhuijsen M M Alastuey A A Sunyer J J Querol X X
Indoor air 20150516 3
At city level, personal monitoring is the best way to assess people's exposure. However, it is usually estimated from a few monitoring stations. Our aim was to determine the exposure to black carbon (BC) and BC dose for 45 schoolchildren with portable microaethalometers and to evaluate the relationship between personal monitoring and fixed stations at schools (indoor and outdoor) and in an urban background (UB) site. Personal BC concentra-tions were 20% higher than in fixed stations at schools. ...[more]