Associations between ambient air pollution and daily mortality among persons with congestive heart failure

Environmental Research

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 8-20

  Goldberg, Mark S ^a   Burnett, Richard T ^b   Valois, Marie France ^a   Flegel, Kenneth ^a   Bailar III, John C ^c   Brook, Jeffrey ^d   Vincent, Renaud ^b   Radon, Katja ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambient air pollution; Congestive heart failure; Mortality; Nitrogen dioxide; Particulates; Time series

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEALTH IMPACT; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; PARTICLE SIZE; QUEBEC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN POPULATION;

CANADA;

EID: 0037208398     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-9351(02)00022-1     Document Type: Article

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