Cardiac autonomic dysfunction: Effects from particulate air pollution and protection by dietary methyl nutrients and metabolic polymorphisms

Circulation

Volumn 117, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1802-1809

  Baccarelli, Andrea ^a,b   Cassano, Patricia A ^c   Litonjua, Augusto ^d   Park, Sung Kyun ^e   Suh, Helen ^a   Sparrow, David ^f   Vokonas, Pantel ^f   Schwartz, Joel ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Epidemiology; Heart rate; Metabolism; Nervous system, autonomic

Indexed keywords

5,10 METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (FADH2); CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; METHIONINE; PYRIDOXINE;

AGED; AGING; AIR POLLUTION; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; DIETARY INTAKE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HEART DISEASE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BOSTON; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DIET; FOLIC ACID; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GLYCINE HYDROXYMETHYLTRANSFERASE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS; METHIONINE; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 41949116103     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.726067     Document Type: Article

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