Air pollution and incidence of cardiac arrhythmia

Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-17

  Peters, Annette ^a,b   Liu, Emerson ^c   Verrier, Richard L ^c   Schwartz, Joel ^a   Gold, Diane R ^a   Mittleman, Murray ^c   Baliff, Jeff ^a   Oh, J Annie ^a   Allen, George ^a   Monahan, Kevin ^c   Dockery, Douglas W ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Black carbon; Carbon monoxide; Cardiovascular diseases; Implantable cardioverter defibrillators; Nitrous dioxide; Particulate matter; Pollution

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATED CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ARRHYTHMIA; CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0033988461     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-200001000-00005     Document Type: Article

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