Atrial fibrillation hospitalization is not increased with short-term elevations in exposure to fine particulate air pollution

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1475-1479

  Bunch, T Jared ^a   Horne, Benjamin D ^a   Asirvatham, Samuel J ^b   Day, John D ^a   Crandall, Brian G ^a   Weiss, J Peter ^a   Osborn, Jeffrey S ^a   Anderson, Jeffrey L ^a   Muhlestein, Joseph B ^a   Lappe, Donald L ^a   Pope Iii, C Arden ^c  

^a INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; electrophysiology clinical

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTITUDE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; UTAH;

EID: 81055156943     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2011.03200.x     Document Type: Article

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