Drier air, lower temperatures, and triggering of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 374-380

  Nguyen, Jennifer L ^a   Link, Mark S ^b   Luttmann Gibson, Heike ^c   Laden, Francine ^c,d,e   Schwartz, Joel ^c,d,e   Wessler, Benjamin S ^b   Mittleman, Murray A ^c,d,f   Gold, Diane R ^c,e   Dockery, Douglas W ^c,d,e  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental Health ^*  (United States)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; AIR QUALITY; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEW; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUAL CHAMBER PACEMAKER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGY; NEW-ONSET ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; NONISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COLD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; VERY ELDERLY; WEATHER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BOSTON; COLD TEMPERATURE; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WEATHER;

EID: 84937403313     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/eDe.0000000000000284     Document Type: Article

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