Chronic exposure to particulate matter and risk of cardiovascular mortality: Cohort study from Taiwan

BMC Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Tseng, Eva ^a   Ho, Wen Chao ^b   Lin, Meng Hung ^b   Cheng, Tsun Jen ^c   Chen, Pau Chung ^c   Lin, Hsien Ho ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cardiovascular mortality; Cohort studies; Particulate matter; Total mortality

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH CERTIFICATE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR; TAIWAN;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; DEATH CERTIFICATES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84942124772     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-015-2272-6     Document Type: Article

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