The relationship between air pollutants and heart-rate variability among community residents in Korea

Inhalation Toxicology

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 435-444

  Min, Kyoung Bok ^a,b   Min, Jin Young ^a   Cho, Sung Il ^a   Paek, Domyung ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b 4 Polytechnic College gil   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TOXIC GAS;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEASUREMENT; ORGANIZATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH KOREA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KOREA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 39849107459     PISSN: 08958378     EISSN: 10917691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08958370801903834     Document Type: Article

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