Surveillance of the short-term impact of fine particle air pollution on cardiovascular disease hospitalizations in New York State

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Haley, Valerie B ^a   Talbot, Thomas O ^a   Felton, Henry D ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POVERTY; UNITED STATES; AIR POLLUTANT; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; EXPOSURE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEW YORK; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 70350629578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-8-42     Document Type: Article

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