Carotid intima-media thickness and long-term exposure to traffic-related air pollution in middle-aged residents of Taiwan: A cross-sectional study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 773-778

  Su, Ta Chen ^a,b   Hwang, Juey Jen ^a   Shen, Yu Cheng ^b   Chan, Chang Chuan ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EXHAUST GAS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL GLUCOSE TOLERANCE TEST; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TAIWAN; TRAFFIC; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; PARTICLE SIZE; SEASON; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEASONS; TAIWAN; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84938322072     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408553     Document Type: Article

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