Particulate air pollution and cardiovascular disease - It is time to take it seriously

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 129-132

  Jalaludin, Bin ^a,b   Cowie, Christine ^c  

^a Centre for Research Evidence Management and Surveillance   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Ctr Health Equity Res/Train/Eval   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Particulate air pollution; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EXPOSURE; HUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84898648223     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/reveh-2014-0031     Document Type: Article

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