Arterial blood pressure and long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution: An analysis in the european study of cohorts for air pollution effects (ESCAPE)

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 896-905

  Fuks, Kateryna B ^a   Weinmayr, Gudrun ^a,b   Foraster, Maria ^c,d,e   Dratva, Julia ^f,g   Hampel, Regina ^h   Houthuijs, Danny ⁱ   Oftedal, Bente ^j   Oudin, Anna ^k   Panasevich, Sviatlana ^j   Penell, Johanna ^l   Sommar, Johan N ^k   Sørensen, Mette ^m   Tiittanen, Pekka ⁿ   Wolf, Kathrin ^h   Xun, Wei W ^o,p   Aguilera, Inmaculada ^c,d   Basagaña, Xavier ^c,d   Beelen, Rob ^q   Bots, Michiel L ^r   Brunekreef, Bert ^q,r   Bueno de Mesquita, H Bas ^i,o   Caracciolo, Barbara ^s   Cirach, Marta ^c,d,t   de Faire, Ulf ^l   de Nazelle, Audrey ^c,o   Eeftens, Marloes ^q   Elosua, Roberto ^t   Erbel, Raimund ^u   Forsberg, Bertil ^k   Fratiglioni, Laura ^s,v   Gaspoz, Jean Michel ^w,x   Hilding, Agneta ^l   Jula, Antti ⁿ   Korek, Michal ^l   Krämer, Ursula ^a   Künzli, Nino ^f,g   Lanki, Timo ⁿ   Leander, Karin ^l   Magnusson, Patrik K E ^l   Marrugat, Jaume ^t   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^c,d,t   Östenson, Claes Göran ^l   Pedersen, Nancy L ^l   Pershagen, Göran ^l   Phuleria, Harish C ^f,g   Probst Hensch, Nicole M ^f,g   Raaschou Nielsen, Ole ^m   Schaffner, Emmanuel ^f,g   Schikowski, Tamara ^a,f,g   Schindler, Christian ^f,g   Schwarze, Per E ^j   Søgaard, Anne J ^j   Sugiri, Dorothea ^a   Swart, Wim J R ⁱ   Tsai, Ming Yi ^f,g   Turunen, Anu W ⁿ   Vineis, Paolo ^o   Peters, Annette ^h   Hoffmann, Barbara ^a,y   more..

^a IUF LEIBNIZ RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^f SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^h INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^j NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^k UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^l KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^m DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

ⁿ NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^o IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^q UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^r UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^s AGING RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

^t HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^u UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^v STOCKHOLM GERONTOLOGY RESEARCH CENTER   (Sweden)

^w GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^x UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^y UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; EXHAUST GAS; NITROGEN OXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ANALYSIS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; META ANALYSIS; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOXICITY; TRAFFIC NOISE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NITROGEN OXIDES; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK FACTORS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84906875865     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307725     Document Type: Review

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