Long-term metal PM2.5 exposures decrease cardiac acceleration and deceleration capacities in welders

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 227-231

  Umukoro, Peter E ^a   Fan, Tianteng ^a   Zhang, Jinming ^a   Cavallari, Jennifer M ^a,b   Fang, Shona C ^a   Lu, Chensheng ^a   Lin, Xihong ^a   Mittleman, Murray A ^c   Schmidt, Georg ^d,e   Christiani, David C ^a,f  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; EXPOSURE; HEART; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MODEL; WELDING; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GAS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME FACTOR; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANT; GAS; METAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; GASES; HEART; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; METALS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; WELDING;

EID: 84963680119     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000000661     Document Type: Article

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