The association of air pollution and emergency medical service seeking

Journal of Tehran University Heart Center

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 159-163

  Saadat, Soheil ^a   Sadeghian, Saeed ^b   Hamidian, Reza ^b   Najafi, Mohammad Ali ^c  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c Air Quality Control Company   (Iran)

Author keywords

Air pollutants; Angina, unstable; Arrhythmias, cardiac; Myocardial infarction; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 77953450299     PISSN: 17358620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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