Exposure to traffic-related air pollution during physical activity and acute changes in blood pressure, autonomic and micro-vascular function in women: A cross-over study

Particle and Fibre Toxicology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Weichenthal, Scott ^a   Hatzopoulou, Marianne ^b   Goldberg, Mark S ^c  

^a HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Endothelial function; Epidemiology; Heart rate variability; Traffic Related air pollution

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BREATHING RATE; CANADA; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; CYCLING; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EXHAUST GAS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPEREMIA; INDOOR AIR POLLUTION; MICROVASCULAR FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUMMER; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFECTS; HEALTH; MICROVASCULATURE; MOTOR VEHICLE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SOOT; TOXICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BICYCLING; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; MICROVESSELS; MOTOR VEHICLES; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUEBEC; SOOT; URBAN HEALTH; VEHICLE EMISSIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924107691     PISSN: 17438977     EISSN: 17438977     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12989-014-0070-4     Document Type: Article

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