Air pollution and adverse cardiac remodeling: Clinical effects and basic mechanisms

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 6, Issue MAY, 2015, Pages

  Liu, Yonggang ^a   Goodson, Jamie M ^b   Zhang, Bo ^a   Chin, Michael T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cardiac hypertrophy; Cardiac remodeling; Diesel exhaust particulates; Heart failure

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; CARDIAC REMODELING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SHORT SURVEY; VASCULARIZATION;

EID: 84930677844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00162     Document Type: Short Survey

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