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SUBMITTER: Zeng W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5800149 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zeng Weilin W Lang Lingling L Li Yue Y Guo Lingchuan L Lin Hualiang H Zhang Yonghui Y Liu Tao T Xiao Jianpeng J Li Xing X Xu Yanjun Y Xu Xiaojun X Arnold Lauren D LD Nelson Erik J EJ Qian Zhengmin Z Ma Wenjun W
International journal of environmental research and public health 20171229 1
The magnitude of excess mortality risk due to exposures to heavy air pollution during the red alert periods in Beijing remains unknown. A health impact assessment tool combined with the PM<sub>2.5</sub>-mortality relationship was applied to estimate the number of excess deaths due to high air pollution exposure during two red alert periods in Beijing, China in December 2015. Daily PM<sub>2.5</sub> concentration increased from 80.2 µg/m³ to 159.8 µg/m³ during the first red alert period and from 6 ...[more]