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Spatial analysis of air pollution and childhood asthma in Hamilton, Canada: comparing exposure methods in sensitive subgroups

Talar Sahsuvaroglu1*, Michael Jerrett2, Malcolm R Sears3, Rob McConnell4, Norm Finkelstein1, Altaf Arain1, Bruce Newbold1 and Rick Burnett5

Author Affiliations

1 School of Geography and Earth Sciences, 1280 King St West, Hamilton, L8S 4K1, Canada

2 School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 140 Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720-7360, USA

3 Firestone Institute for Respiratory Health, St. Joseph's Healthcare, 50 Charlton Avenue East, Hamilton, ON, L8N 4A6, Canada

4 Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Southern California, 1540 Alcazar Street, Los Angeles, CA, 90089-9010, USA

5 Biostatistics and Epidemiology Division, Health Canada, Tunney's Pasture, Ottawa, ON, K1A 0T6, Canada

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Environmental Health 2009, 8:14 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-8-14

Published: 1 April 2009

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Supplemental table. Correlation matrix of independent variables for all study subjects.

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Additional File 2:

Online appendix. This online appendix shows the results of all exposure models within different subgroups of the data.

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