Baseline repeated measures from controlled human exposure studies: Associations between ambient air pollution exposure and the systemic inflammatory biomarkers IL-6 and fibrinogen

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 120-124

  Thompson, Aaron M S ^a,b   Zanobetti, Antonella ^c   Silverman, Frances ^a,b   Schwartz, Joel ^c   Coull, Brent ^c   Urch, Bruce ^a   Speck, Mary ^a,b   Brook, Jeffrey R ^d   Manno, Michael ^a,b   Gold, Diane R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Epidemiology; Fibrinogen; Inflammation; Interleukin 6

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; FIBRINOGEN; INTERLEUKIN 6; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; OZONE LAYER; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77149147091     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0900550     Document Type: Article

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