Air pollution as an emerging global risk factor for stroke

JAMA

Volumn 305, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1240-1241

  Mateen, Farrah J ^a   Brook, Robert D ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MORTALITY; NOTE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 79952833970     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2011.352     Document Type: Note

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