The association between air pollution and subclinical atherosclerosis

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kawada, Tomoyuki ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR POLLUTION INDICATOR; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUGMENTATION INDEX; EXHAUST GAS; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FEMALE; MALE; NOTE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84891506376     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307403     Document Type: Letter

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