Low-level exposure to ambient particulate matter is associated with systemic inflammation in ischemic heart disease patients

Environmental Research

Volumn 116, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-51

  Huttunen, Kati ^a,b   Siponen, Taina ^a   Salonen, Iiris ^c   Yli Tuomi, Tarja ^a   Aurela, Minna ^e   Dufva, Hilkka ^d   Hillamo, Risto ^e   Linkola, Eeva ^f   Pekkanen, Juha ^a,b   Pennanen, Arto ^a   Peters, Annette ^g   Salonen, Raimo O ^a   Schneider, Alexandra ^g   Tiittanen, Pekka ^a   Hirvonen, Maija Riitta ^a,b   Lanki, Timo ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^c Kymenlaakso Hospital Services   (Finland)

^d Faculty of Medicine   (Finland)

^e FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f City of Kotka Environment Centre   (Finland)

^g INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Inflammation; Ischemic heart disease; Personal exposure; Wildfires

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; GAMMA INTERFERON; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; MYELOPEROXIDASE;

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENZYME ACTIVITY; HEALTH IMPACT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MORALITY; MORBIDITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; PROTEIN; WILDFIRE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; AIR TEMPERATURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FINLAND; FIRE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTANTS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CYTOKINES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN; FINLAND; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PEROXIDASE;

FINLAND;

EID: 84861681283     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2012.04.004     Document Type: Article

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