Clearing the Air to Address Pollution’s Cardiovascular Health Crisis
By: Mark R. Miller, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Shadi Rahimzadeh, Marvellous Adeoye, Pablo Perel, Sean Taylor, Shreya Shrikhande, Kelcey Armstrong-Walenczak, Anoop S. V. Shah, César Damián Berenstein, Rajesh Vedanthan, Elvis Ndikum Achiri, Sumi Mehta, Abiodun Moshood Adeoye, Daniel Piñeiro and Fausto J. Pinto
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.1364 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 4, 2024
Accepted on: Oct 9, 2024
Published on: Oct 30, 2024
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© 2024 Mark R. Miller, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Shadi Rahimzadeh, Marvellous Adeoye, Pablo Perel, Sean Taylor, Shreya Shrikhande, Kelcey Armstrong-Walenczak, Anoop S. V. Shah, César Damián Berenstein, Rajesh Vedanthan, Elvis Ndikum Achiri, Sumi Mehta, Abiodun Moshood Adeoye, Daniel Piñeiro, Fausto J. Pinto, published by Ubiquity Press
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