Geospatial patterns of hospitalization rates for stroke with comorbid hypertension in relation to environmental sources of persistent organic pollutants: Results from a 12-year population-based study

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 576-585

  Sergeev, Alexander V ^a   Carpenter, David O ^b  

^a OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Hazardous waste; Hypertension; Persistent organic pollutants; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE PREVALENCE; HEALTH RISK; HOSPITAL SECTOR; HYPERTENSION; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC POLLUTANT; POISSON RATIO; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STROKE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLLUTANT; POLLUTION; STATISTICS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; STROKE;

NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955151137     PISSN: 09441344     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-010-0399-7     Document Type: Article

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