Incense use and cardiovascular mortality among Chinese in Singapore: The Singapore Chinese health study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1279-1284

  Pan, An ^a,b   Clark, Maggie L ^c   Ang, Li Wei ^d   Yu, Mimi C ^e   Yuan, Jian Min ^f,g   Koh, Woon Puay ^h  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HOME ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN; INCENSE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMOKING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SINGAPORE;

AIR POLLUTANT;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SINGAPORE;

EID: 84921394206     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1307662     Document Type: Article

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