Residential traffic exposure, pulse pressure, and C-reactive protein: Consistency and contrast among exposure characterization methods

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 803-811

  Rioux, Christine L ^a   Tucker, Katherine L ^b   Mwamburi, Mkaya ^a   Gute, David M ^c   Cohen, Steven A ^a   Brugge, Doug ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Tufts University   (United States)

Author keywords

C reactive protein; Inflammation; Puerto rican; Pulse pressure; Residential traffic exposure; Traffic analysis zone; Traffic density; Traffic proximity

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; EXHAUST GAS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTOR VEHICLE; OBESITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERTO RICO; PULSE PRESSURE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; TRAFFIC; TRAVEL; AGED; ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXHAUST GAS; HISPANIC; INFLAMMATION; INTERVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD PRESSURE; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 77953284257     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901182     Document Type: Article

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