[Estimate of potential health benefits of the reduction of air pollution with PM10 in Trieste, Italy].

Objectives: Estimate of the possible benefits, in Trieste, of a reduction of PM10 to values not over 60, 50, 40, 30, 20, 10 microg/mc, utilizing data of PM10 of the year 2002 as cause specific deaths and admissions.

Design: Cause specific deaths and admissions attributable to short term effects of PM10 calculated by software AirQ, utilizing Relative Risk from MISA 1 study (as published in 2002).

Setting: Trieste (Italy).