Clean indoor air laws immediately reduce heart attacks

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 9-11

  Dinno, Alexis ^a   Glantz, Stanton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT AIR; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EDITORIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; VALIDATION STUDY;

AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OHIO; PUBLIC POLICY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 34347215492     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2007.03.013     Document Type: Editorial

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