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Demolition of High-Rise Public Housing Increases Particulate Matter Air Pollution in Communities of High-Risk Asthmatics

Samuel Dorevitch Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences; Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Hakan Demirtas Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USA
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Victoria W. Perksy Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USA
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Serap Erdal Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USA
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Lorraine Conroy Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USA
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Todd Schoonover Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USA
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Peter A. Scheff Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USA
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Pages 1022-1032 | Published online: 27 Feb 2012

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