Air temperature and inflammatory and coagulation responses in men with coronary or pulmonary disease during the winter season

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 408-416

  Hampel, Regina ^a   Breitner, Susanne ^a   Rückerl, Regina ^a   Frampton, Mark W ^b   Koenig, Wolfgang ^c   Phipps, Richard P ^b   Wichmann, H Erich ^a,d   Peters, Annette ^a   Schneider, Alexandra ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ENDOTHELIAL LEUKOCYTE ADHESION MOLECULE 1; FIBRINOGEN; PROTHROMBIN;

AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GERMANY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFLAMMATION; LOW TEMPERATURE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; WINTER;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD COAGULATION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FIBRINOGEN; GERMANY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77953773626     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.048660     Document Type: Article

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