Personal exposure to specific volatile organic compounds and acute changes in lung function and heart rate variability among urban cyclists

Environmental Research

Volumn 118, Issue , 2012, Pages 118-123

  Weichenthal, Scott ^a   Kulka, Ryan ^a   Bélisle, Patrick ^b   Joseph, Lawrence ^b   Dubeau, Aimee ^a   Martin, Christina ^a   Wang, Daniel ^c   Dales, Robert ^a  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cycling; Heart rate variability; Lung function; Traffic

Indexed keywords

1 BUTENE; 1,1,2 TRICHLORO 1,2,2 TRIFLUOROETHANE; 3 METHYLHEXANE; 3 METHYLPENTANE; BENZENE; BUTANE; CARBON TETRACHLORIDE; CHLORODIFLUOROMETHANE; DICHLORODIFLUOROMETHANE; DICHLOROMETHANE; ETHANE; ETHYLENE; HEXANE; ISOBUTANE; ISOHEXANE; ISOPENTANE; ISOPRENE; META XYLENE; METHYL CHLORIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; ORTHO XYLENE; PARA XYLENE; PENTANE; PROPANE; TOLUENE; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; TRICHLOROFLUOROMETHANE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CYCLE TRANSPORT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; NITRIC OXIDE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATION; RESPIRATORY DISEASE; TRAFFIC EMISSION; URBAN POPULATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CYCLING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHALATION; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; TRAFFIC; URBAN AREA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BAYES THEOREM; BICYCLING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LUNG; URBAN POPULATION; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; OTTAWA;

EID: 84866027332     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2012.06.005     Document Type: Article

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