Proximity to traffic, Ambient air pollution, And community noise in relation to incident rheumatoid arthritis

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1075-1080

  De Roos, Anneclaire J ^a   Koehoorn, Mieke ^b   Tamburic, Lillian ^b   Davies, Hugh W ^b   Brauer, Michael ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; CARBON MONOXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIGHWAY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOISE MEASUREMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; POPULATION EXPOSURE; RESIDENTIAL AREA; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOUND INTENSITY; TRAFFIC NOISE; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; CANADA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; NOISE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BRITISH COLUMBIA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN OXIDES; NOISE; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84907612351     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307413     Document Type: Article

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