Particulate air pollution, ambulatory heart rate variability, and cardiac arrhythmia in retirement community residents with coronary artery disease

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 121, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1135-1141

  Bartell, Scott M ^a,b,c   Longhurst, John ^c   Tjoa, Thomas ^c   Sioutas, Constantinos ^d   Delfino, Ralph J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CARBON MONOXIDE; DIGITALIS; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE;

ACCELEROMETER; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPERATURE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 84884835726     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205914     Document Type: Article

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