Higher coronary heart disease and heart attack morbidity in Appalachian coal mining regions

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 355-359

  Hendryx, Michael ^a   Zullig, Keith J ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachian region; Cardiovascular health; Coal; Environmental health; Mining

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COAL MINING; COMORBIDITY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRINKING; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCOME; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SMOKING; STROKE; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOLISM; APPALACHIAN REGION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COAL MINING; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350538945     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.09.011     Document Type: Article

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