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Effects of particulate air pollution on blood pressure in a highly exposed population in Beijing, China: a repeated-measure study

Andrea Baccarelli1, Francesco Barretta2, Chang Dou3*, Xiao Zhang4, John P McCracken1, Anaité Díaz5, Pier A Bertazzi2, Joel Schwartz1, Sheng Wang6 and Lifang Hou4

Author Affiliations

1 Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

2 Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, University of Milan and Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Policlinico, Milan, Italy

3 Deptartment of Safety Engineering, China Institute of Industrial Health No.45 Zengguang Rd., Haidian District, Beijing 100048, China

4 Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA

5 Center for Health Studies, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Guatemala City, Guatemala

6 Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

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Environmental Health 2011, 10:108 doi:10.1186/1476-069X-10-108

Published: 21 December 2011

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Additional Tables Table S1 Stratified analyses by current smoking on all subjects (office workers and truck drivers) The results were stratified by current smoking for the associations of personal PM2.5, personal EC, and ambient PM10 with BP and heart rate for the entire study group. Table S2 Stratified analyses by current smoking on office workers The results were stratified by current smoking for the associations of personal PM2.5, personal EC, and ambient PM10 with BP and heart rate for office workers. Table S3 Stratified analyses by current smoking on truck drivers The results were stratified by current smoking for the associations of personal PM2.5, personal EC, and ambient PM10 with BP and heart rate for truck drivers.

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