Ambient fine particulate matter exposure and myocardial ischemia in the Environmental Epidemiology of Arrhythmogenesis in the Women's Health Initiative (EEAWHI) study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 751-756

  Zhang, Zhu Ming ^a   Whitsel, Eric A ^b,c   Quibrera, P Miguel ^b   Smith, Richard L ^d   Liao, Duanping ^e   Anderson, Garnet L ^f   Prineas, Ronald J ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cardiovascular disease; Electrocardiography; Myocardial ischemia; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECG ABNORMALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT; T WAVE; T WAVE AMPLITUDE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 66349135897     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0800046     Document Type: Article

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