Increased plasma viscosity during an air pollution episode: A link to mortality?

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue 9065, 1997, Pages 1582-1587

  Peters, Annette ^a   Döring, Angela ^a   Wichmann, H Erich ^a   Koenig, Wolfgang ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ACUTE PHASE RESPONSE; ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AIRWAY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFLAMMATION; LUNG; MALE; METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WINTER;

EID: 0343765709     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(97)01211-7     Document Type: Article

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