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SUBMITTER: Weaver AM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6415293 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Weaver Anne M AM McGuinn Laura L Neas Lucas L Mirowsky Jaime J Devlin Robert B RB Dhingra Radhika R Ward-Caviness Cavin C Cascio Wayne E WE Kraus William E WE Hauser Elizabeth R ER Di Qian Q Schwartz Joel J Diaz-Sanchez David D
Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) 20190201 1
<h4>Introduction</h4>Exposure to PM<sub>2.5</sub> air pollution and neighborhood-level sociodemographic characteristics are associated with cardiovascular disease and possibly diabetes. However, the joint effect of sociodemographics and PM<sub>2.5</sub> on these outcomes is uncertain.<h4>Methods</h4>We examined whether clusters of sociodemographic characteristics modified effects of long-term PM<sub>2.5</sub> exposure on coronary artery disease (CAD), myocardial infarction (MI), hypertension, an ...[more]