Occupational exposure to air pollutants, inflammation and ischemic heart disease

Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 421-423

  Sjögren, Bengt ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CHOLESTEROL; COAL; FIBRINOGEN; L SELECTIN;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; OCCUPATION; POLLUTION EXPOSURE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIRBORNE PARTICLE; AMBIENT AIR; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD GROUP O; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; DEATH; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EDITORIAL; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FUME; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATHOGENESIS; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PLASMA VISCOSITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SMOG; SMOKING; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBOSIS; URBAN AREA; WELDING; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

CHLAMYDOPHILA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 11044225330     PISSN: 03553140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5271/sjweh.830     Document Type: Editorial

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