Hospitalization rates for coronary heart disease in relation to residence near areas contaminated with persistent organic pollutants and other pollutants

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 756-761

  Sergeev, Alexander V ^a,b   Carpenter, David O ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b SMOLENSK STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Hazardous waste sites; Hospitalization; Persistent organic pollutants; Superfund sites

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCOME; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; ORGANIC POLLUTION; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; FEMALE; HAZARDOUS WASTE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOUSING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEW YORK;

EID: 20844432718     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7595     Document Type: Article

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