Contribution of climate and air pollution to variation in coronary heart disease mortality rates in England

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Scarborough, Peter ^a   Allender, Steven ^a   Rayner, Mike ^a   Goldacre, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; LOW TEMPERATURE; MALE; MORTALITY; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLIMATE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GEOGRAPHY; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

AIR POLLUTION; CLIMATE; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SUNLIGHT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84858035430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032787     Document Type: Article

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