Short-term effects of ambient air pollution on stroke: Who is most vulnerable?

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 430, Issue , 2012, Pages 193-201

  Villeneuve, Paul J ^a,b   Johnson, Julie Y M ^a   Pasichnyk, Dion ^c   Lowes, Justin ^c   Kirkland, Scott ^c   Rowe, Brian H ^c  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Case crossover study; Diabetes; Epidemiology; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANTS; AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION; CASE-CROSSOVER STUDY; CHART DATA; EDMONTON , CANADA; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS; FIXED-SITE; HEART DISEASE; HEMORRHAGIC STROKE; HOSPITAL VISITS; INTER QUARTILE RANGES; ISCHEMIC STROKES; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MEDICAL CHARTS; ODDS RATIOS; SHORT-TERM EFFECTS; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACKS;

DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITALS; LOGISTICS; MEDICAL PROBLEMS; NITROGEN OXIDES; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTION;

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CARBON MONOXIDE; INSULIN; NITRITE; OZONE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIRPORT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; STROKE; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CANADA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SMOKING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ALBERTA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

ALBERTA; CANADA; EDMONTON;

EID: 84861436044     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.05.002     Document Type: Article

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