Ambient pollution and blood pressure in cardiac rehabilitation patients

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 2184-2189

  Zanobetti, Antonella ^a,b   Canner, Marina Jacobson ^a   Stone, Peter H ^a   Schwartz, Joel ^a   Sher, David ^a   Eagan Bengston, Elizabeth ^a   Gates, Karen A ^a   Hartley, L Howard ^a   Suh, Helen ^a   Gold, Diane R ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Blood pressure; Cardiovascular diseases; Environmental exposure; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; WEATHER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BODY MASS INDEX; BOSTON; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DIASTOLE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICLE SIZE; RISK FACTORS; SYSTOLE; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 20844436134     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000143831.33243.D8     Document Type: Article

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