Ritual risk: Incense use and cardiovascular mortality

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 122, Issue 12, 2015, Pages A336-

  Averett, Nancy ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIGARETTE SMOKE; AIR POLLUTANT;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMBUSTION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY;

AIR POLLUTANTS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84936746071     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.122-A336     Document Type: Note

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