Patient Awareness of the Risks for Heart Disease Posed by Air Pollution

Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 379-384

  Nowka, Matthew R ^a   Bard, Robert L ^b   Rubenfire, Melvyn ^b   Jackson, Elizabeth A ^b   Brook, Robert D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Coronary heart disease; Patient awareness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CORONARY RISK; EDUCATION PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PASSIVE SMOKING; PATIENT EDUCATION; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; AWARENESS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79952611945     PISSN: 00330620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2010.12.003     Document Type: Article

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