Short-term metal particulate exposures decrease cardiac acceleration and deceleration capacities in welders: A repeated-measures panel study

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 91-96

  Umukoro, Peter E ^a   Cavallari, Jennifer M ^a,b   Fang, Shona C ^a   Lu, Chensheng ^a   Lin, Xihong ^a   Mittleman, Murray A ^a,c   Christiani, David C ^a,d  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAL; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CARDIAC ACCELERATION; CARDIAC DECELERATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOLTER MONITOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SMOKING; WELDING; ACCELERATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; AMBULATORY ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECTS; HEART; HEART RATE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; WORK;

ACCELERATION; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; WELDING; WORK;

EID: 84954399868     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2015-103052     Document Type: Article

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