Relationship between Asian dust and ischemic stroke: A time-stratified case-crossover study

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3085-3087

  Kamouchi, Masahiro ^a   Ueda, Kayo ^b   Ago, Tetsuro ^a   Nitta, Hiroshi ^b   Kitazono, Takanari ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

Author keywords

air pollution; Asian dust; cerebral infarct

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; ASIAN DUST; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; ASIA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DUST; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SILICON DIOXIDE; STROKE;

EID: 84868141870     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.672501     Document Type: Article

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