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We explore the rise and fall of pellagra, a disease caused by inadequate niacin consumption, in the American South …
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Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal's role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a Rosen-Roback style model to examine how differences in...
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prospects and increases the risk of age-related pathologies such as cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, and stroke … typhoid fever in 1900 had elevated rates of heart and kidney disease fifteen years later; also cities with unusually high …) would have reduced later death rates from heart disease, cancer, stroke, and kidney disease by 23 to 35 percent …
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prospects and increases the risk of age-related pathologies such as cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, and stroke … typhoid fever in 1900 had elevated rates of heart and kidney disease fifteen years later; also cities with unusually high …) would have reduced later death rates from heart disease, cancer, stroke, and kidney disease by 23 to 35 percent …
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After declining by 24.2% from 2009 to 2016, annual average fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in the United States in counties with monitors increased by 5.5% between 2016 and 2018. Increases occurred in multiple census regions and in counties that were in and out of attainment with National...
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We explore the rise and fall of pellagra, a disease caused by inadequate niacin consumption, in the American South …
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