Ambient air pollution and racial/ethnic differences in carotid intima-media thickness in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1191-1198

  Jones, Miranda R ^a   Diez Roux, Ana V ^b,c   O'Neill, Marie S ^b   Guallar, Eliseo ^a   Sharrett, A Richey ^a   Post, Wendy ^d   Kaufman, Joel D ^e   Navas Acien, Ana ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISEASE INCIDENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RACIAL IDENTITY;

UNITED STATES;

PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAUCASIAN; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATHOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CAROTID INTIMA-MEDIA THICKNESS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84949623675     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2015-205588     Document Type: Article

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