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Associations between arrhythmia episodes and temporally and spatially resolved black carbon and particulate matter in elderly patients.
Occupational and environmental medicine - 1 Mar 2014
Zanobetti Antonella, Coull Brent A, Gryparis Alexandros, Kloog Itai, Sparrow David, Vokonas Pantel S, Wright Robert O, Gold Diane R, Schwartz Joel
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OBJECTIVES: Ambient air pollution has been associated with sudden deaths, some of which are likely due to ventricular arrhythmias. Defibrillator discharge studies have examined the association of air pollution with arrhythmias in sensitive populations. No studies have assessed this association using residence-specific estimates of air pollution exposure. METHODS: In the Normative Aging Study, we investigated the...
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