Case report: Supraventricular arrhythmia after exposure to concentrated ambient air pollution particles

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 275-277

  Ghio, Andrew J ^a   Bassett, Maryann ^a   Montilla, Tracey ^a   Chung, Eugene H ^b   Smith, Candice B ^a   Cascio, Wayne E ^a   Carraway, Martha Sue ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Arrhythmias; Atrial fibrillation; Atrial flutter; Heart diseases; Particulate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANT; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONCENTRATED AMBIENT PARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELEMETRY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NORTH CAROLINA; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84863074587     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103877     Document Type: Article

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