Particulate air pollution, metabolic syndrome, and heart rate variability: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1406-1411

  Park, Sung Kyun ^a   Auchincloss, Amy H ^b   O'Neill, Marie S ^a   Prineas, Ronald ^c   Correa, Juan C ^d,e   Keeler, Jerry ^a   Graham Barr, R ^e   Kaufman, Joel D ^f   Diez Roux, Ana V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO FUNDACIÓN SANTA FE DE BOGOTÁ   (Colombia)

^e NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Autonomic nervous system; Heart rate variability; Metabolic syndrome; PM 2.5

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GLUCOSE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AGED; AIR MONITORING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG USE; DYSLIPIDEMIA; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; HEART RATE; HUMANS; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77957930687     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.0901778     Document Type: Article

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