Residential exposure to traffic is associated with coronary atherosclerosis

Circulation

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 489-496

  Hoffmann, B ^a,b   Moebus, S ^a   Mohlenkamp S ^b   Stang, A ^c   Lehmann, N ^a   Dragano, N ^d   Schmermund, A ^b   Memmesheimer, M ^e   Mann, K ^a   Erbel, R ^b   Jockel K H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Atherosclerosis; Coronary disease; Epidemiology; Particulate matter; Traffic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DISPERSION; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MODEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC; WORK; CALCINOSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXHAUST GAS; GERMANY; INDUSTRY; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIOGRAPHY; SMOKING; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; URBAN POPULATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 34548429314     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.693622     Document Type: Article

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