Air pollution and markers of inflammation and coagulation in patients with coronary heart disease.

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Published in Am J Respir Crit Care Med on November 17, 2005

Authors

Regina Rückerl1, Angela Ibald-Mulli, Wolfgang Koenig, Alexandra Schneider, Gabriele Woelke, Josef Cyrys, Joachim Heinrich, Victor Marder, Mark Frampton, H Erich Wichmann, Annette Peters

Author Affiliations

1: GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Ingolstaedter Landstrasse 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany. rueckerl@gsf.de

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