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Article: An eight-year follow up to the 1980s Harvard Six Cities study has found a strong association between human lifespan and the amount of fine particulate matter in the air.(In Brief)(Brief article)
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- Environment
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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An eight-year follow up to the 1980s Harvard Six Cities study has found a strong association between human lifespan and the amount of fine particulate matter in the air. In the six cities studied, an average of 3 percent fewer people died for every reduction of one microgram per cubic meter in the average levels of fine ...