Short-term effects of air pollution on a range of cardiovascular events in England and Wales: Case-crossover analysis of the MINAP database, hospital admissions and mortality

Heart

Volumn 100, Issue 14, 2014, Pages 1093-1098

  Milojevic, Ai ^a   Wilkinson, Paul ^a   Armstrong, Ben ^a   Bhaskaran, Krishnan ^a   Smeeth, Liam ^a   Hajat, Shakoor ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); DATA BASE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ARRHYTHMIAS; MYOCARDIAL ISCHAEMIA AND INFARCTION (IHD);

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARBON MONOXIDE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATIENT ADMISSION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK FACTORS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; TIME FACTORS; WALES;

EID: 84903456997     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304963     Document Type: Article

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