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Vol. 169, No. 6 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwn400 Advance Access publication February 10, 2009

Original Contribution Heart Rate Variability, Ambient Particulate Matter Air Pollution, and Glucose Homeostasis: The Environmental Epidemiology of Arrhythmogenesis in the Women’s Health Initiative

Eric A. Whitsel, P. Miguel Quibrera, Sharon L. Christ, Duanping Liao, Ronald J. Prineas, Garnet L. Anderson, and Gerardo Heiss Initially submitted March 24, 2008; accepted for publication December 3, 2008.

Metabolic neuropathophysiology underlying the prediabetic state may confer susceptibility to the adverse health effects of ambient particulate matter