Acute blood pressure responses in healthy adults during controlled air pollution exposures

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1052-1055

  Urch, Bruce ^a,b   Silverman, Frances ^a,b,c   Corey, Paul ^a,b   Brook, Jeffrey R ^a,b,d   Lukic, Karl Z ^a   Rajagopalan, Sanjay ^e   Brook, Robert D ^f  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^e MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Blood pressure; Hypertension; Ozone; Particulate matter; PM2.5

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON; OZONE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC; VASOCONSTRICTION; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; DUST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN OXIDES; OXIDANTS, PHOTOCHEMICAL; OZONE; PARTICLE SIZE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 23844465466     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7785     Document Type: Article

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