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Traffic-related air pollution and QT interval: modification by diabetes, obesity, and oxidative stress gene polymorphisms in the normative aging study.
Environmental health perspectives - 1 Jun 2010
Baja Emmanuel S, Schwartz Joel D, Wellenius Gregory A, Coull Brent A, Zanobetti Antonella, Vokonas Pantel S, Suh Helen H
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BACKGROUND: Acute exposure to ambient air pollution has been associated with acute changes in cardiac outcomes, often within hours of exposure. OBJECTIVES: We examined the effects of air pollutants on heart-rate-corrected QT interval (QTc), an electrocardiographic marker of ventricular repolariza...
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