Ambient air pollution and stroke

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Medicine Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (P.L.L., M.A.M.); and Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (P.L.L.).
² From the Department of Medicine Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (P.L.L., M.A.M.); and Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (P.L.L.). mmittlema@bidmc.harvard.edu.

Review

Petter L Ljungman et al. Stroke. 2014 Dec.

. 2014 Dec;45(12):3734-41.

doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.003130. Epub 2014 Oct 9.

¹ From the Department of Medicine Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (P.L.L., M.A.M.); and Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (P.L.L.).
² From the Department of Medicine Cardiovascular Epidemiology Research Unit, Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (P.L.L., M.A.M.); and Unit of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (P.L.L.). mmittlema@bidmc.harvard.edu.

No abstract available

Keywords: air pollution; environmental medicine; epidemiology; particulate matter; stroke.

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