Association of ventricular arrhythmias detected by implantable cardioverter defibrillator and ambient air pollutants in the St Louis, Missouri metropolitan area

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 591-596

  Rich, D Q ^a   Kim, M H ^b   Turner, J R ^c   Mittleman, M A ^d   Schwartz, J ^a   Catalano, P J ^e   Dockery, D W ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ARRHYTHMIA; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICLE SIZE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 33748495572     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2005.023457     Document Type: Article

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