Air pollution and acute myocardial infarction hospital admission in Alberta, Canada: A three-step procedure case-crossover study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Xiaoming ^a,c   Kindzierski, Warren ^a   Kaul, Padma ^b   Sun, Qinghua ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES   (Canada)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN DIOXIDE; OZONE;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CANADA; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ALBERTA; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; HOSPITALIZATION; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALBERTA; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT ADMISSION;

EID: 84940483236     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132769     Document Type: Article

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