Highway proximity and black carbon from cookstoves as a risk factor for higher blood pressure in rural China

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 36, 2014, Pages 13229-13234

  Baumgartner, Jill ^a,b   Zhang, Yuanxun ^c   Schauer, James J ^d   Huang, Wei ^c   Wang, Yuqin ^c   Ezzati, Majid ^e  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Household air pollution; Solid fuels

Indexed keywords

EXHAUST GAS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT;

ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS; CHINA; COOKING; DIASTOLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SOOT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SYSTOLE;

CHINA; COOKING; DIASTOLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR VEHICLES; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; SOOT; SYSTOLE; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84906968550     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1317176111     Document Type: Article

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