Air pollution and markers of inflammation and coagulation in patients with coronary heart disease

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 432-441

  Rückerl, Regina ^a   Ibald Mulli, Angela ^b   Koenig, Wolfgang ^b   Schneider, Alexandra ^b   Woelke, Gabriele ^b   Cyrys, Josef ^b   Heinrich, Joachim ^b   Marder, Victor ^b   Frampton, Mark ^b   Wichmann, H Erich ^b   Peters, Annette ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute phase reaction; Air pollution; Blood coagulation; C reactive protein; Cardiovascular diseases

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ORGANIC CARBON;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD COAGULATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 32444433552     PISSN: 1073449X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200507-1123OC     Document Type: Article

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