Associations between long-term air pollutant exposures and blood pressure in elderly residents of Taipei city: A cross-sectional study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 123, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 779-784

  Chen, Szu Ying ^a,b   Wu, Chang Fu ^a   Lee, Jui Huan ^a   Hoffmann, Barbara ^c   Peters, Annette ^d   Brunekreef, Bert ^e   Chu, Da Chen ^f   Chan, Chang Chuan ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b E DA HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; AIR POLLUTANT; NITROGEN OXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; COMORBIDITY ASSESSMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEMALE; HEALTH ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TAIWAN; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; PARTICLE SIZE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY; URBAN POPULATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN OXIDES; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; TAIWAN; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84938324632     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1408771     Document Type: Article

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