Particulate Matter and Subclinical Atherosclerosis: Associations between Different Particle Sizes and Sources with Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in the SAPALDIA Study
Author(s) -
Inmaculada Aguilera,
Julia Dratva,
Seraina Caviezel,
Luc Burdet,
Eric de Groot,
Regina E. Ducret-Stich,
Marloes Eeftens,
Dirk Keidel,
Reto Meier,
Laura Pérez,
Thomas Rothe,
Emmanuel Schaffner,
Arno Schmit-Trucksäss,
MingYi Tsai,
Christian Schindler,
Nino Künzli,
Nicole ProbstHensch
Publication year - 2016
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/ehp161
Subject(s) - medicine , ultrafine particle , particulates , intima media thickness , asian dust , cohort , percentile , subclinical infection , cohort study , environmental health , aerosol , meteorology , carotid arteries , materials science , chemistry , physics , statistics , organic chemistry , mathematics , nanotechnology
Subclinical atherosclerosis has been associated with long-term exposure to particulate matter (PM), but the relevance of particle size and sources of exposure remains unclear.
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