Do psychosocial stress and social disadvantage modify the association between air pollution and blood pressure: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 178, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1550-1562

  Hicken, Margaret T ^a   Adar, Sara D ^a   Roux, Ana V Diez ^a   O'Neill, Marie S ^b   Magzamen, Sheryl ^c   Auchincloss, Amy H ^d   Kaufman, Joel D ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Blood pressure; Population groups; Social environment; Social medicine; Social psychology

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

AGE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ACQUISITION; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MEDICINE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; VULNERABILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ANGER; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHRONIC STRESS; DEPRESSION; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MENTAL STRESS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PULSE PRESSURE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AIR POLLUTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; POPULATION GROUPS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL MEDICINE; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHINA; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84890063845     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt190     Document Type: Article

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