Ambient air pollution and apnea and bradycardia in high-risk infants on home monitors

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1321-1327

  Peel, Jennifer L ^a   Klein, Mitchel ^b,c   Dana Flanders, W ^c   Mulholland, James A ^d   Freed, Gary ^e,f   Tolbert, Paige E ^b,c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Apnea; Bradycardia; Carbon monoxide; Infants; Nitrogen dioxide; Ozone; Particulate matter; Sulfur dioxide

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE;

AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; APNEA; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BRADYCARDIA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH RISK INFANT; HOME MONITORING; HUMAN; INFANT; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONITOR; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREND STUDY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; APNEA; BRADYCARDIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; ODDS RATIO; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 80052325990     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1002739     Document Type: Article

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