Traffic-related air pollution and cardiovascular mortality in central Taiwan

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1818-1823

  Tsai, Dai Hua ^a   Wang, Jia Lin ^b   Chuang, Kai Jen ^c   Chan, Chang Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c St Mary's Medicine Nursing and Management College   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Generalized additive model (GAM); Mortality; Traffic; Volatile organic compound (VOC)

Indexed keywords

AIR MONITORING STATIONS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AVERAGE VALUES; CARDIO-VASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; FIXED-SITE; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; INTER QUARTILE RANGES; ISOBUTANES; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; MONITORING SITES; O-XYLENE; P-XYLENE; RELATIVE RISKS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TRAFFIC-RELATED; TRAFFIC-RELATED AIR POLLUTION; URBAN AREAS; URBAN ENVIRONMENTS;

AIR QUALITY; AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BENZENE; BUTANE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS; PROPANE; PROPYLENE; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; XYLENE;

POLLUTION;

BENZENE; BUTANE; CARBON MONOXIDE; META XYLENE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ORTHO XYLENE; PARA XYLENE; PROPANE; PROPYLENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; RISK FACTOR; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN AREA; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); EXHAUST GAS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METEOROLOGY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIWAN; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

TAICHUNG; TAIWAN;

EID: 77649179294     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.01.044     Document Type: Article

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