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A Case–Control Analysis of Exposure to Traffic and Acute Myocardial Infarction

Author(s) -

Cathryn Tonne,

Steve Melly,

Murray A. Mittleman,

Brent A. Coull,

Robert J. Goldberg,

Joel Schwartz

Publication year - 2006

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.9587

Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , interquartile range , odds ratio , confidence interval , population , environmental health , demography , emergency medicine , sociology

Long-term exposure to particulate air pollution has been associated with an increased risk of dying from cardiopulmonary and ischemic heart disease, yet few studies have evaluated cardiovascular end points other than mortality. We investigated the relationship between long-term exposure to traffic and occurrence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in a case-control study.

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