Publication Date:
1987-01-09
Description:
In Xuan Wei County, Yunnan Province, lung cancer mortality is among China's highest and, especially in females, is more closely associated with indoor burning of "smoky" coal, as opposed to wood or "smokeless" coal, than with tobacco smoking. Indoor air samples were collected during the burning of all three fuels. In contrast to wood and smokeless coal emissions, smoky coal emission has high concentrations of submicron particles containing mutagenic organics, especially in aromatic and polar fractions. These studies suggested an etiologic link between domestic smoky coal burning and lung cancer in Xuan Wei.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Mumford, J L -- He, X Z -- Chapman, R S -- Cao, S R -- Harris, D B -- Li, X M -- Xian, Y L -- Jiang, W Z -- Xu, C W -- Chuang, J C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1987 Jan 9;235(4785):217-20.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3798109" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
China
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*Coal
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Neoplasms/etiology/*mortality
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Polycyclic Compounds/analysis
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Smoke/*adverse effects/analysis
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Wood
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
