Individual and neighborhood socioeconomic status and the association between air pollution and cardiovascular disease

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1840-1847

  Chi, Gloria C ^a   Hajat, Anjum ^a   Bird, Chloe E ^b   Cullen, Mark R ^c   Griffin, Beth Ann ^b   Miller, Kristin A ^a   Shih, Regina A ^b   Stefanick, Marcia L ^c   Vedal, Sverre ^a   Whitsel, Eric A ^d,e   Kaufman, Joel D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DEATH CERTIFICATE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; INCIDENCE; POSTMENOPAUSE; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMENOPAUSE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL CLASS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85002698022     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/EHP199     Document Type: Article

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