Inhalation of fine particulate air pollution and ozone causes acute arterial vasoconstriction in healthy adults

Circulation

Volumn 105, Issue 13, 2002, Pages 1534-1536

  Brook, Robert D ^a,e   Brook, Jeffrey R ^b,c   Urch, Bruce ^b   Vincent, Renaud ^d   Rajagopalan, Sanjay ^a   Silverman, Frances ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Endothelin; Endothelium; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; OZONE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY ENDOTHELIUM; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHALATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ARTERIES; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; OZONE; PARTICLE SIZE; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 0037007136     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000013838.94747.64     Document Type: Article

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