Brief Report: Ambient PM2.5 and Risk of Hospital Admissions: Do Risks Differ for Men and Women?

Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 575-579

  Bell, Michelle L ^a   Son, Ji Young ^a   Peng, Roger D ^b   Wang, Yun ^c   Dominici, Francesca ^c  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGE; AMBIENT AIR; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BAYES THEOREM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RHYTHM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MEDICARE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATIFICATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

PARTICULATE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BAYES THEOREM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942806356     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000310     Document Type: Article

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