Long-term air pollution and traffic noise exposures and mild cognitive impairment in older adults: A cross-sectional analysis of the Heinz Nixdorf recall study

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1361-1368

  Tzivian, Lilian ^a   Dlugaj, Martha ^b   Winkler, Angela ^b   Weinmayr, Gudrun ^a   Hennig, Frauke ^a,c   Fuks, Kateryna B ^a   Vossoughi, Mohammad ^a   Schikowski, Tamara ^a,d,e   Weimar, Christian ^b   Erbel, Raimund ^b   Jöckel, Karl Heinz ^c   Moebus, Susanne ^c   Hoffmann, Barbara ^f  

^a IUF LEIBNIZ RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^d SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAFFIC NOISE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; GERMANY; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AIR POLLUTANT; NITROGEN OXIDE; PARTICULATE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROGEN OXIDES; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; PARTICULATE MATTER; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84985004028     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1509824     Document Type: Article

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