Association of air pollution with increased incidence of ventricular tachyarrhythmias recorded by implanted cardioverter defibrillators

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 670-674

  Dockery, Douglas W ^a,b   Luttman Gibson, Heike ^a   Rich, David Q ^a   Link, Mark S ^c   Mittleman, Murray A ^a,d   Gold, Diane R ^a,b   Koutrakis, Petros ^a   Schwartz, Joel D ^a,b   Verrier, Richard L ^a,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Arrythmias; Epidemiology; Fibrillation; Heart arrest

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; FOSSIL FUEL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMBUSTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EXHAUST GAS; FOLLOW UP; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICLE SIZE; SULFATES; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EQUIDAE;

EID: 20844445138     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7767     Document Type: Article

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