Retinal microvascular responses to short-term changes in particulate air pollution in healthy adults

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1011-1016

  Louwies, Tijs ^a,b   Panis, Luc Int ^a,b   Kicinski, Michal ^b   De Boever, Patrick ^a,b   Nawrot, Tim S ^b,c  

^a FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; BELGIUM; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECTS; HEART RATE; MICROVASCULATURE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; RETINA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; BELGIUM; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROVESSELS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; RETINA;

EID: 84883277472     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205721     Document Type: Article

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