Open AccessIncense Use and Cardiovascular Mortality among Chinese in Singapore: The Singapore Chinese Health Study
Author(s) -
An Pan,
Maggie L. Clark,
Li Wei Ang,
Mimi C. Yu,
JianMin Yuan,
WoonPuay Koh
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
environmental health perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257
H-Index - 282
eISSN - 1552-9924
pISSN - 0091-6765
DOI - 10.1289/ehp.1307662
Subject(s) - incense , medicine , hazard ratio , environmental health , cohort study , epidemiology , demography , proportional hazards model , cohort , disease , confidence interval , philosophy , theology , sociology
Incense burning is common in many parts of the world. Although it is perceived that particulate matter from incense smoke is deleterious to health, there is no epidemiologic evidence linking domestic exposure to cardiovascular mortality.
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