The relation between past exposure to fine particulate air pollution and prevalent anxiety: Observational cohort study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 350, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Power, Melinda C ^a,b,d   Kioumourtzoglou, Marianthi Anna ^a   Hart, Jaime E ^a,c   Okereke, Olivia I ^a,c   Laden, Francine ^a,c   Weisskopf, Marc G ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ANXIETY ASSESSMENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN CRISP INDEX PHOBIC ANXIETY SCALE; DISEASE DURATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; UNITED STATES; ANXIETY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

PARTICULATE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; ANXIETY; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84926295514     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h1111     Document Type: Article

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