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Air Pollution
Cardiorespiratory hospitalizations linked to forest fire smoke exposure
July 12th, 2005
Cardiorespiratory hospitalizations are associated with smoke exposure during the 1997 Southeast Asian forest fires. "We investigated the cardiorespiratory health effects of smoke exposure from the 1997 Southeast Asian Forest Fires among persons who were hospitalized in the region of Kuching, Malaysia. We selected admissions to seven hospitals in the Kuching region from a database of all hospital admissions in the state of Sarawak during January 1, 1995 and December 31, 1998," researchers in the United States and Malaysia report. "For several cardiorespiratory disease classifications we used Holt-Winters time-series analyses to determine whether the...
Source: Science Letter (2005-07-12)
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