Clinical Trial: Effects of Transportation Choices on Commuter Health
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Condition: Pollution; Exposure
Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
Official Title: Effects of Transportation Choices on Commuter Health (ETCH): Impacts of Modifiable Factors on Personal Exposures and Acute Health
Brief Summary:
The primary project objective is to investigate how an individual's choices influence personal exposures to traffic-related air pollutants (TRAPs) and the corresponding acute health effects.TRAPs are a complex mixture of particulate and gaseous pollutants that vary considerably spatially and temporally.There is increasing evidence that TRAPs inflict a broad range of deleterious health effects in both health-compromised and healthy individuals, and it has been reported that traffic pollutants may cause up to…
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