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Jouni J. K. Jaakkola, MD, DSc, PhD, Helen Parise, PhD, Victor Kislitsin, MSc, Natalia I. Lebedeva, MD, DSc and John D. Spengler, PhD

Jouni J. K. Jaakkola is with the Institute of Occupational Health, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, and the Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Helen Parise is with the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, Mass. Victor Kislitsin and Natalia I. Lebedeva are with the Center for the Preparation and Implementation of International Technical Assistance Projects, Moscow, Russian Federation. John D. Spengler is with the Environmental Science and Engineering Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Jouni J. K. Jaakkola, MD, DSc, PhD, Institute of Occupational Health, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, United Kingdom (e-mail: j.jaakkola{at}bham.ac.uk).

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