Air pollution and hospital admissions for congestive heart failure in a tropical city: Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 899-904

  Lee, I Ming ^a   Tsai, Shang Shyue ^b   Ho, Chi Kung ^a   Chiu, Hui Fen ^c   Yang, Chun Yuh ^a  

^a KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROUS OXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR SAMPLING; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TAIWAN; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; TAIWAN; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 34547776362     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370701479406     Document Type: Article

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