Increasing emergency room visits for stroke by elevated levels of fine particulate constituents

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 473-474, Issue , 2014, Pages 446-450

  Chen, Szu Ying ^a,b   Lin, Yu Lun ^a   Chang, Wei Tien ^c   Lee, Chung Te ^d   Chan, Chang Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b E DA HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Emergency room visits; Particulate matter; Stroke; Time series study

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; NITRATES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS; EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; INTER QUARTILE RANGES; NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; STROKE;

EMERGENCY ROOMS;

NITRATE; ORGANIC CARBON; SULFATE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH STATUS; PARTICULATE MATTER; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; TAIWAN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

TAIWAN;

AIR POLLUTION; EMERGENCY ROOM VISITS; PARTICULATE MATTER; STROKE; TIME-SERIES STUDY;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; STROKE; TAIWAN;

EID: 84891354247     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.12.035     Document Type: Article

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