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SUBMITTER: Choi YJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6937254 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Choi You-Jung YJ Kim Sun-Hwa SH Kang Si-Hyuck SH Kim Sun-Young SY Kim Ok-Jin OJ Yoon Chang-Hwan CH Lee Hae-Young HY Youn Tae-Jin TJ Chae In-Ho IH Kim Cheol-Ho CH
Scientific reports 20191230 1
Elevated blood pressure (BP) has been proposed as a possible pathophysiological mechanism linking exposure to ambient air pollution and the increased risk of cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. In this study, we investigated the hourly relationship between ambient air pollutants and BP. BP measurements were extracted from the electronic health record database of the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital from February 2015 to June 2017. A total of 98,577 individual BP measurements were m ...[more]