Personal Exposure to Submicrometer Particles and Heart Rate Variability in Human Subjects
Open Access
- 1 July 2004
- journal article
- Published by Environmental Health Perspectives in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 112 (10), 1063-1067
- https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.6897
Abstract
We conducted a study on two panels of human subjects—9 young adults and 10 elderly patients with lung function impairments—to evaluate whether submicrometer particulate air pollution was associated with heart rate variability (HRV). We ...Keywords
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