Associations between ambient fine particulate air pollution and hypertension: A nationwide cross-sectional study in China

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 584-585, Issue , 2017, Pages 869-874

  Liu, Cong ^a   Chen, Renjie ^a,b   Zhao, Yaohui ^c   Ma, Zongwei ^d   Bi, Jun ^d   Liu, Yang ^e   Meng, Xia ^e   Wang, Yafeng ^c   Chen, Xinxin ^c   Li, Weihua ^a   Kan, Haidong ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Key Laboratory of Meteorology and Health   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambient air pollution; Blood pressure; Cross sectional study; Fine particulate matter; Hypertension

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; MERCURY COMPOUNDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FINE PARTICULATE MATTER; HYPERTENSION; INTER QUARTILE RANGES; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION MODELS;

PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

AIR EXPOSURE; AMBIENT AIR; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BLOOD; DEVELOPING WORLD; HEALTH RISK; HYPERTENSION; PARTICULATE MATTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTION; AIR QUALITY; AMBIENT FINE PARTICULATE AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTION MONITORING; PREVALENCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; URBAN POPULATION; AIR POLLUTANT; BLOOD PRESSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CHINA;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHINA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 85027939253     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.133     Document Type: Article

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