Respiratory and cardiovascular responses to walking down a traffic-polluted road compared with walking in a traffic-free area in participants aged 60 years and older with chronic lung or heart disease and age-matched healthy controls: a randomised, crossover study

BACKGROUND: Long-term exposure to pollution can lead to an increase in the rate of decline of lung function, especially in older individuals and in those with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), whereas shorter-term exposure at higher pollution levels has been implicated in causing excess...

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Autores principales: Sinharay, Rudy, Gong, Jicheng, Barratt, Benjamin, Ohman-Strickland, Pamela, Ernst, Sabine, Kelly, Frank J, Zhang, Junfeng (Jim), Collins, Peter, Cullinan, Paul, Chung, Kian Fan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5803182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29221643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32643-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5803182/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29221643
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32643-0

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