Ambient pollution and heart rate variability

Circulation

Volumn 101, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 1267-1273

  Gold, Diane R ^a,b   Litonjua, Augusto ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^b   Lovett, Eric ^c   Larson, Andrew ^c,d   Nearing, Bruce ^c   Allen, George ^b   Verrier, Monique ^a   Cherry, Rebecca ^a   Verrier, Richard ^c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d Marquette Medical Systems   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Electrophysiology; Epidemiology; Heart rate; Nervous system, autonomic

Indexed keywords

OZONE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL; VAGUS TONE;

EID: 0034696593     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.101.11.1267     Document Type: Article

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