Chronic air pollution exposure and endothelial dysfunction: What you can't see - Can harm you

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 60, Issue 21, 2012, Pages 2167-2169

  Brook, Robert D ^a   Rajagopalan, Sanjay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

air pollution; endothelial dysfunction; flow mediated dilation; multiethnic cohort

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; FLOW MEDIATED DILATION; HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; NOTE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION; VASODILATATION;

EID: 84869089640     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2012.08.974     Document Type: Editorial

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