Fine particulate matter air pollution, proximity to traffic, and aortic atherosclerosis

Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 254-264

  Allen, Ryan W ^a   Criqui, Michael H ^b   Diez Roux, Ana V ^c   Allison, Matthew ^b   Shea, Steven ^d   Detrano, Robert ^e   Sheppard, Lianne ^f   Wong, Nathan D ^g   Stukovsky, Karen Hinckley ^f   Kaufman, Joel D ^f  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTILIPEMIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; AIR POLLUTANT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 66149106710     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31819644cc     Document Type: Article

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