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Establishing integrated rural–urban cohorts to assess air pollution-related health effects in pregnant women, children and adults in Southern India: an overview of objectives, design and methods in the Tamil Nadu Air Pollution and Health Effects (TAPHE) study

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  • Kalpana Balakrishnan Department of Environmental Health Engineering, ICMR Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health: Air Pollution, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Sankar Sambandam Department of Environmental Health Engineering, ICMR Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health: Air Pollution, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Padmavathi Ramaswamy Department of Physiology, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Santu Ghosh Department of Environmental Health Engineering, ICMR Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health: Air Pollution, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Vettriselvi Venkatesan Department of Human Genetics, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Gurusamy Thangavel Department of Environmental Health Engineering, ICMR Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health: Air Pollution, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay Department of Environmental Health Engineering, ICMR Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health: Air Pollution, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Priscilla Johnson Department of Physiology, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Solomon Paul Department of Human Genetics, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Naveen Puttaswamy Department of Environmental Health Engineering, ICMR Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health: Air Pollution, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Rupinder S Dhaliwal Division of Non-Communicable Diseases, Indian Council for Medical Research, New Delhi, Delhi, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • D K Shukla Division of Non-Communicable Diseases, Indian Council for Medical Research, New Delhi, Delhi, India PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Department of Environmental Health Engineering, ICMR Center for Advanced Research on Environmental Health: Air Pollution, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Google scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Professor Kalpana Balakrishnan; kalpanasrmc{at}ehe.org.in
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Balakrishnan K, Sambandam S, Ramaswamy P, et al
Establishing integrated rural–urban cohorts to assess air pollution-related health effects in pregnant women, children and adults in Southern India: an overview of objectives, design and methods in the Tamil Nadu Air Pollution and Health Effects (TAPHE) study

Publication history

  • Received March 5, 2015
  • Revised April 28, 2015
  • Accepted May 7, 2015
  • First published June 10, 2015.
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October 25, 2017

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