Cardiovascular risks from fine particulate air pollution

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 356, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 511-513

  Dockery, Douglas W ^a   Stone, Peter H ^b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EDITORIAL; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 33846684444     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe068274     Document Type: Editorial

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