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Life Expectency Increased With Air Pollution Reductions 2009

Jan 22nd 2009
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2009Jan22: Living longer in Pittsburgh and Buffalo.

2009Jan22: Living longer in Pittsburgh and Buffalo.

2009Jan22: Pittsburgh and Buffalo showed a 10-month increase in life expectency with reductions in particulate air pollution during the 1980s and 1990s , according to a study led by epidemiologist C. Arden Pope III of Brigham Young University, that appears in the New England Journal of Medicine (LA Times).

Reference: Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-sci-air22-2009jan22,0,3402233.story

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