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Effects of air pollution on blood pressure and heart rate variability: a panel study of vehicular traffic controllers in the city of São Paulo, Brazil

Ubiratan de Paula Santos, Alfésio Luı́s Ferreira Braga, Dante Marcelo Artigas Giorgi, Luiz Alberto Amador Pereira, César Grupi, Chin An Lin, Marco Antônio Bussacos, Dirce Maria Trevisan Zanetta, Paulo Hilário Nascimento Saldiva, Mário Terra Filho

European Heart Journal · 2004 · 138 citations · 34 references

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Abstract

This study supplies biological plausibility for observational studies on air pollution-related cardiovascular morbidity and mortality.

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Heart Rate Variability

Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology the North A Electrophysiology · Circulation · 1996 · 16.7K citations

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Heart rate variability: Standards of measurement, physiological interpretation, and clinical use

Marek Malik, J. Thomas Bigger, A. John Camm et al. · European Heart Journal · 1996 · 15.2K citations · Full text

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Lung Cancer, Cardiopulmonary Mortality, and Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution

C. Arden Pope · JAMA · 2002 · 8.5K citations

An Association between Air Pollution and Mortality in Six U.S. Cities

Douglas W. Dockery, C. Arden Pope, Xiping Xu et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 1993 · 8.1K citations · Full text

Cardiovascular Mortality and Long-Term Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution

C. Arden Pope, Richard T. Burnett, George D. Thurston et al. · Circulation · 2003 · 2.6K citations