Systemic inflammation, heart rate variability and air pollution in a cohort of senior adults

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 625-630

  Luttmann Gibson, Heike ^a   Suh, Helen H ^a   Coull, Brent A ^a   Dockery, Douglas W ^a,b   Sarnat, Stefanie Ebelt ^a,c   Schwartz, Joel ^a,b   Stone, Peter H ^b   Gold, Diane R ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; INTERLEUKIN 6; SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RR INTERVAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 77956925194     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.050625     Document Type: Article

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