The relationship between particulate air pollution and emergency hospital visits for hypertension in Beijing, China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 408, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 4446-4450

  Guo, Yuming ^a   Tong, Shilu ^a   Zhang, Yanshen ^b   Barnett, Adrian G ^a   Jia, Yuping ^c   Pan, Xiaochuan ^d  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Emergency hospital visit; Hypertension; Particulate air pollution; Time stratified case crossover

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECT; AERODYNAMIC DIAMETERS; AMBIENT AIR; AMBIENT PARTICULATE MATTER; BEIJING , CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSSOVER DESIGN; ELEVATED LEVEL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL VISITS; HYPERTENSION; LAG MODEL; MEAN TEMPERATURE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NITROGEN DIOXIDES; ODDS RATIOS; PARTICULATE AIR POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PARTICULATE MATTER AIR POLLUTION; TIME-STRATIFIED CASE-CROSSOVER;

AERODYNAMICS; AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; HOSPITALS; HUMIDITY CONTROL; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); SULFUR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

POLLUTION;

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HYPERTENSION; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK FACTOR; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR ANALYSIS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DYNAMICS; EMERGENCY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE; ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CHINA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 77955927952     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2010.06.042     Document Type: Article

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