Biomolecular markers within the core axis of aging and particulate air pollution exposure in the elderly: A cross-sectional study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 943-950

  Pieters, Nicky ^a   Janssen, Bram G ^a   Dewitte, Harrie ^b   Cox, Bianca ^a   Cuypers, Ann ^a   Lefebvre, Wouter ^c   Smeets, Karen ^a   Vanpoucke, Charlotte ^d   Plusquin, Michelle ^a   Nawrot, Tim S ^a,e  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b Primary Health Care Center GVHV   (Belgium)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

^d Belgian Interregional Environment Agency   (Belgium)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SIRTUIN 1; AIR POLLUTANT; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AGE; AGED; AGING; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; GENE DOSAGE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; AIR POLLUTANT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; METABOLISM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 84977117598     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1509728     Document Type: Article

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