Air pollution and daily mortality: A hypothesis concerning the role of impaired homeostasis

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 61-65

  Frank, Robert ^a,b   Tankersley, Clarke ^a  

^a The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Homeostatic decline; Mortality; Particulates; Vulnerability to stress

Indexed keywords

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HEART RATE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MORTALITY; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRESS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0036153532     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0211061     Document Type: Article

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