Associations between arrhythmia episodes and temporally and spatially resolved black carbon and particulate matter in elderly patients

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 201-207

  Zanobetti, Antonella ^a   Coull, Brent A ^a   Gryparis, Alexandros ^b   Kloog, Itai ^a,c   KloogSparrow, David ^d   Vokonas, Pantel S ^d   Wright, Robert O ^a,e   Gold, Diane R ^a,e   GoldSchwartz, Joel ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE M1; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE T1;

AGE; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; GENOTYPE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SENESCENCE; SMOKING; TEMPERATURE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARBON; GENETIC VARIATION; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; MUTATION; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84893681449     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101526     Document Type: Article

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