What is the role of weather in cardiovascular disease?

Aging Health

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-3

  Bhaskaran, Krishnan ^a   Hajat, Shakoor ^a   Smeeth, Liam ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ambient temperature; cardiovascular disease; climate; epidemiology; myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

AIR CONDITIONING; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COLD; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LATITUDE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; THERMAL EXPOSURE; WEATHER;

EID: 79951734411     PISSN: 1745509X     EISSN: 17455103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/ahe.10.83     Document Type: Editorial

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