Traffic-related air pollution in relation to incidence and prognosis of coronary heart disease

Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 121-128

  Rosenlund, Mats ^a,b,c   Picciotto, Sally ^a   Forastiere, Francesco ^a   Stafoggia, Massimo ^a   Perucci, Carlo A ^a  

^a Rome E Health Authority   (Italy)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NITRIC OXIDE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; ROME; URBAN POPULATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 37349044667     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31815c1921     Document Type: Article

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