Air pollution: The "heart" of the problem

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 32-39

  Brook, Robert D ^a   Brook, Jeffrey R ^b   Rajagopalan, Sanjay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY STANDARD; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INHALATION; LUNG DISEASE; MORTALITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; VASOCONSTRICTION; ANIMAL; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DRUG EFFECT; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; HUMANS; PARTICLE SIZE;

EID: 0038351124     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-003-0008-y     Document Type: Review

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