Associations between traffic noise, particulate air pollution, hypertension, and isolated systolic hypertension in adults: The KORA study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 492-498

  Babisch, Wolfgang ^a   Wolf, Kathrin ^b   Petz, Markus ^c   Heinrich, Joachim ^b   Cyrys, Josef ^d   Peters, Annette ^b  

^a UMWELTBUNDESAMT   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c ACCON GmbH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TRAFFIC NOISE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PARTICULATE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE; PARTICULATE MATTER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899748829     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1306981     Document Type: Article

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