Exposure to sub-chronic and long-term particulate air pollution and heart rate variability in an elderly cohort: the Normative Aging Study

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Mordukhovich, Irina ^a   Coull, Brent ^a   Kloog, Itai ^a,b   Koutrakis, Petros ^a   Vokonas, Pantel ^c   Schwartz, Joel ^d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Epidemiology; Heart rate variability; Particulate matter

Indexed keywords

BLACK CARBON; AIR POLLUTANT; EXHAUST GAS; PARTICULATE MATTER; SOOT;

AGING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLACK CARBON; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELDERLY POPULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LAND USE CHANGE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LAND USE; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPRING; SUMMER; WINTER; DRUG EFFECTS; EXHAUST GAS; HEART RATE; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SOOT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOXICITY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

BOSTON; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; BOSTON; COHORT STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK FACTORS; SOOT; UNITED STATES; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

EID: 84946406142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12940-015-0074-z     Document Type: Article

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