Hematological, immunological, and cardiovascular changes in individuals residing in a polluted city of India: A study in Delhi

International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health

Volumn 215, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 306-311

  Banerjee, M ^a   Siddique, S ^b   Mukherjee, S ^c   Roychoudhury, S ^d   Das, P ^e   Ray, M R ^e   Lahiri, T ^f  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b HEALTH CANADA   (Canada)

^c AMITY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d CENTRAL POLLUTION CONTROL BOARD   (India)

^e CHITTARANJAN NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (India)

^f Nature Environment and Wildlife Society (NEWS)   (India)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cardiovascular risk; Hypertension; Immune response; Platelet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DRUG EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLLUTION; QUALITY OF LIFE;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNE SYSTEM; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE;

EID: 84859213105     PISSN: 14384639     EISSN: 1618131X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2011.08.003     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. Antezana F.S. Epidemiologic Aspects of Hypertension in the World 1996, WHO, http://www.gfmer.ch/TMCAM/hypertension/Epidemiologic aspects.
2. Athens J.W. Granulocytes. Wintrobe's Clinical Hematology 1993, 224. Lea and Febiger, Malvern, PA. 9th ed. G.R. Lee, T.C. Bithel, J. Foerster, J.W. Athens, J.N. Lukens (Eds.).
3. Blann A., Caine G., Bareford D. Abnormal vascular, platelet and coagulation markers in primary thrombocythaemia are not reversed by treatments that reduce the platelet count. Platelets 2004, 15:447-449.
4. Blazer D.G., Landerman L.R., Hays J.C., Grady T.A., Havlik R., Corti M.C. Blood pressure and mortality risk in older people: comparison between African Americans and Whites. J. Am. Geriatr. Soc. 2001, 49:375-381.
5. Boscolo P., Di Gioacchino M., Sabbioni E., Di Giacomo F., Reale M., Volpe A.R., Di Sciascio M.B., Conti P., Giuliano G. Lymphocyte subpopulations, cytokines and trace elements in asymptomatic atopic women exposed to an urban environment. Life Sci. 2000, 67:119-126.
6. Cropper, M.L., Simon, N.B., Alberini, A., Sharma, P.K., 1997, December. The health effects of air pollution in Delhi, India. Policy Research Working Paper 1860. The World Bank Development Research Group.
7. Dacie J.V., Lewis S.M. Practical Haematology 1975, Churchill Livingstone, London. 5th ed.
8. Delfino R.J., Staimer N., Tjoa T., Gillen D.L., Polidori A., Arhami M., Kleinman M.T., Vaziri N.D., Longhurst J., Sioutas C. Air pollution exposures and circulating biomarkers of effect in a susceptible population: clues to potential causal component mixtures and mechanisms. Environ. Health Perspect. 2009, 117:1232-1238.
9. Dockery D.W. Epidemiologic evidence of cardiovascular effects of particulate air pollution. Environ. Health Perspect. 2001, 109:483-486.
10. Donaldson K., Stone V., Seaton A., MacNee W. Ambient particle inhalation and the cardiovascular system: potential mechanism. Environ. Health Perspect. 2001, 109:523-527.
11. Dostal M., Hertz-Picciotto I., Wegienka G., Dejmek J., Skokanova V., Sram R.J. Parameters of cellular immunity in maternal and umbilical cord blood in relation to air pollution. Preliminary results of a pregnancy outcomes study. Cas. Lek. Cesk. 2000, 139:183-188.
12. Fujimoto H., Sakata T., Hamaguchi Y., Shiga S., Tohyama K., Ichiyama S., Wang F., Houwen B. Flow cytometric method for enumeration and classification of reactive immature granulocyte populations. Cytometry (Commun. Clin. Cytometry) 2000, 42:371-378.
13. Gold D.R., Litonjua A., Schwartz J., Lovett E., Larson A., Nearing B. Ambient pollution and heart rate variability. Circulation 2000, 101:1267-1273.
14. Gupta R. Meta-analysis of prevalence of hypertension in India. Indian Heart J. 1997, 49:43-48.
15. JNC-7 Seventh Report of the Joint Committee on the Prevention, Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Pressure 2003, May, National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute, National High Blood Pressure Education Program, Bethesda, MD, Accessed at www.nhbli.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension.
16. Kappelmayer J., Nagy B., Miszti-Blasius K., Hevessy Z., Setiadi H. The emerging value of P-selectin as a disease marker. Clin. Chem. Lab. Med. 2004, 42:475-486.
17. Lan Q., Zhang L., Li G., Vermeulen R., Weinberg R.S., Dosemeci M., Rappaport S.M., Shen M., Alter B.P., Wu Y., Kopp W., Waidyanatha S., Rabkin C., Guo W., Chanock S., Hayes R.B., Linet M., Kim S., Yin S., Rothman N., Smith M.T. Hematotoxicity in workers exposed to low levels of benzene. Science 2004, 306:1774-1776.
18. Massaguer A., Perez-Del-Pulgar S., Engel P., Serratosa J., Bosch J., Pizcueta P. Concanavalin-A-induced liver injury is severely impaired in mice deficient in P-selectin. J. Leukoc. Biol. 2002, 72:262-270.
19. Michelson A.D., Barnard M.R., Krueger L.A., Frelinger A.L., Furman M.I. Evaluation of platelet function by flow cytometry. Methods 2000, 21:259-270.
20. Nagata K., Tsuji T., Matsushima K., Hanai N., Irimura T. Redistribution of selectin counter-ligands induced by cytokines. Int. Immunol. 2000, 12:487-492.
21. Oberdorster G. Toxicology of ultrafine particles; in vivo studies. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 2000, 358:2719-2740.
22. Pande J.N., Bhatta N., Biswas D., Pandey R.M., Ahluwalia G., Siddaramaiah N.H., Khilnani G.C. Outdoor air pollution and emergency room visit at a hospital in Delhi. Indian J. Chest Dis. Allied Sci. 2002, 44:13-19.
23. Peters A., Doring A., Whichmann H.E., Koenig W. Increased plasma viscosity during an air pollution episode; a link to mortality?. Lancet 1997, 349:1582-1587.
24. Pope C.A., Verrier R.L., Lovett E.G., Larson A.C., Raizenne M.E., Kaner R.E., Schartz J., Villegas M., Gold D.R., Dockery D.W. Heart rate variability associated with particulate pollution. Am. Heart J. 1999, 138:890-899.
25. Ray M.R., Mukherjee S., Roychoudhury S., Bhattacharya P., Banerjee M., Siddique S., Chakraborty S., Lahiri T. Platelet activation, upregulation of CD11b/CD18 expression on leukocytes and increase in circulating leukocyte-platelet aggregates in Indian women chronically exposed to biomass smoke. Hum. Exp. Toxicol. 2006, 25:627-635.
26. Salvi S., Blomberg A., Rudell B., Kelly F., Sandstrom T., Holgate S.T., Frew A. Acute inflammatory responses in the airways and peripheral blood after short-term exposure to diesel exposure in healthy human volunteers. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 1999, 159:702-709.
27. Schwartz J., Ballester F., Saez M., Perez-Hoyos S., Bellido J., Cambra K., Arribas F., Canada A., Perez-Boillos M.J., Sunyer J. The concentration-response relation between air pollution and daily deaths. Environ. Health Perspect. 2001, 109:1001-1006.
28. Seaton A., MacNee W., Donaldson K., Godden D. Particulate air pollution and acute health effects. Lancet 1995, 345:176-178.
29. 2.5 exposure and markers of oxidative stress in blood. Environ. Health Perspect. 2003, 111:161-165.
30. 10) by alveolar macrophages stimulates the release of polymorphonuclear leukocytes from bone marrow. Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 1997, 155:1441-1447.
31. Weiss S.T., Segal M.R., Sparrow D., Wager C. Relation of FEV1 and peripheral blood leukocyte count to total mortality: the normative aging study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 1995, 142:493-498.
32. Zimmerman G.A., Prescott S.M., McIntyre T.M. Endothelial cell interactions with granulocytes: tethering and signaling molecules. Immunol. Today 1992, 13:93-99.