Air pollution and hospital admissions for ischemic heart disease in persons with congestive heart failure or arrhythmia

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 110, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1247-1252

  Mann, Jennifer K ^a   Tager, Ira B ^a   Lurmann, Fred ^b   Segal, Mark ^c   Quesenberry Jr , Charles P ^d   Lugg, Marlene M ^e   Shan, Jun ^d   Van Den Eeden, Stephen K ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SONOMA TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^e KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Arrhythmia; Carbon monoxide; Congestive heart failure; Hospital admissions; Ischemic heart disease; Nitrogen dioxide

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; COMBUSTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MOTOR VEHICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036913837     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.021101247     Document Type: Article

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