Living near major traffic roads and risk of deep vein thrombosis

Circulation

Volumn 119, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 3118-3124

  Baccarelli, Andrea ^a,c,e   Martinelli, Ida ^b   Pegoraro, Valeria ^a   Melly, Steven ^c   Grillo, Paolo ^a   Zanobetti, Antonella ^c   Hou, Lifang ^d   Bertazzi, Pier Alberto ^a   Mannucci, Pier Mannuccio ^b   Schwartz, Joel ^c  

^a A Bianchi Bonomi Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Department of Environmental and Occupational Health   (Italy)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Coagulation; Deep vein thrombosis; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; ITALY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 67649563006     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.836163     Document Type: Article

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