Ambient Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality among Survivors of Myocardial Infarction: Population-Based Cohort Study
Author(s) -
Hong Chen,
Richard T. Burnett,
Ray Copes,
Jeffrey C. Kwong,
Paul J. Villeneuve,
Mark S. Goldberg,
Robert D. Brook,
Aaron van Donkelaar,
Michael Jerrett,
Randall V. Martin,
Jeffrey R. Brook,
Alexander Kopp,
Jack V. Tu
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/ehp185
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , myocardial infarction , confidence interval , cohort , proportional hazards model , confounding , cohort study , population , environmental health
Survivors of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are at increased risk of dying within several hours to days following exposure to elevated levels of ambient air pollution. Little is known, however, about the influence of long-term (months to years) air pollution exposure on survival after AMI.
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