Associations between short-term changes in air pollution and correlates of arterial stiffness: The veterans affairs normative aging study, 2007-2011

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 192-199

  Mehta, Amar J ^a   Zanobetti, Antonella ^a   Koutrakis, Petros ^a   Mittleman, Murray A ^a,b,c   Sparrow, David ^d,e,f   Vokonas, Pantel ^d,f   Schwartz, Joel ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

air pollution; particulate matter; pulse wave analysis

Indexed keywords

AGING; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CORRELATION; HEALTH IMPACT; LONGITUDINAL GRADIENT; METROPOLITAN AREA; PARTICULATE MATTER; PUBLIC HEALTH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTERIAL STIFFNESS; ARTICLE; AUGMENTATION INDEX; AUGMENTATION PRESSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PRESSURE; PULSE WAVE; RADIAL ARTERY; TONOMETRY;

AIR POLLUTION; PARTICULATE MATTER; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIR POLLUTION; BOSTON; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PULSE WAVE ANALYSIS; URBAN POPULATION; VASCULAR STIFFNESS;

BOSTON; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891536250     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwt271     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Brook RD, Rajagopalan S, Pope CA 3rd, et al. Particulate matter air pollution and cardiovascular disease: An update to the scientific statement from the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2010;121(21):2331-2378.
2. Brook RD, Brook JR, Urch B, et al. Inhalation of fine particulate air pollution and ozone causes acute arterial vasoconstriction in healthy adults. Circulation. 2002;105(13): 1534-1536.
3. O'Neill MS, Veves A, Zanobetti A, et al. Diabetes enhances vulnerability to particulate air pollution-Associated impairment in vascular reactivity and endothelial function. Circulation. 2005;111(22):2913-2920.
4. Schneider A, Neas L, Herbst MC, et al. Endothelial dysfunction: Associations with exposure to ambient fine particles in diabetic individuals. Environ Health Perspect. 2008;116(12):1666-1674.
5. Rundell KW, Hoffman JR, Caviston R, et al. Inhalation of ultrafine and fine particulate matter disrupts systemic vascular function. Inhal Toxicol. 2007;19(2):133-140.
6. Dales R, Liu L, Szyszkowicz M, et al. Particulate air pollution and vascular reactivity: The Bus Stop Study. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2007;81(2):159-164.
7. Auchincloss AH, Diez Roux AV, Dvonch JT, et al. Associations between recent exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and blood pressure in the Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Environ Health Perspect. 2008;116(4):486-491.
8. Hoffmann B, Luttmann-Gibson H, Cohen A, et al. Opposing effects of particle pollution, ozone, and ambient temperature on arterial blood pressure. Environ Health Perspect. 2012;120(2): 241-246.
9. Van Bortel LM, Laurent S, Boutouyrie P, et al. Expert consensus document on the measurement of aortic stiffness in daily practice using carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity. J Hypertens. 2012;30(3):445-448.
10. Laurent S, Boutouyrie P, Asmar R, et al. Aortic stiffness is an independent predictor of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in hypertensive patients. Hypertension. 2001;37(5):1236-1241.
11. Vlachopoulos C, Aznaouridis K, O'Rourke MF, et al. Prediction of cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality with central haemodynamics: A systematic review and meta-Analysis. Eur Heart J. 2010;31(15):1865-1871.
12. Weber T, Auer J, O'Rourke MF, et al. Arterial stiffness, wave reflections, and the risk of coronary artery disease. Circulation. 2004;109(2):184-189.
13. Mitchell GF, Parise H, Benjamin EJ, et al. Changes in arterial stiffness and wave reflection with advancing age in healthy men and women: The Framingham Heart Study. Hypertension. 2004; 43(6):1239-1245.
14. Segers P, Rietzschel ER, De Buyzere ML, et al. Noninvasive (input) impedance, pulse wave velocity, and wave reflection in healthy middle-Aged men and women. Hypertension. 2007; 49(6):1248-1255.
15. Chirinos JA, Kips JG, Roman MJ, et al. Ethnic differences in arterial wave reflections and normative equations for augmentation index. Hypertension. 2011;57(6):1108-1116.
16. Chirinos JA, Rietzschel ER, De Buyzere ML, et al. Arterial load and ventricular-Arterial coupling: Physiologic relations with body size and effect of obesity. Hypertension. 2009;54(3): 558-566.
17. Mahmud A, Feely J. Effect of smoking on arterial stiffness and pulse pressure amplification. Hypertension. 2003;41(1):183-187.
18. Mahmud A, Feely J. Effects of passive smoking on blood pressure and aortic pressure waveform in healthy young adults-influence of gender. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2004;57(1): 37-43.
19. van Trijp MJ, Beulens JW, Bos WJ, et al. Alcohol consumption and augmentation index in healthy young men: The ARYA Study. Am J Hypertens. 2005;18(6):792-796.
20. Lundbäck M, Mills NL, Lucking A, et al. Experimental exposure to diesel exhaust increases arterial stiffness in man. Part Fibre Toxicol. 2009;6:7.
21. Fang SC, Eisen EA, Cavallari JM, et al. Acute changes in vascular function among welders exposed to metal-rich particulate matter. Epidemiology. 2008;19(2):217-225.
22. Adamopoulos D, Vyssoulis G, Karpanou E, et al. Environmental determinants of blood pressure, arterial stiffness, and central hemodynamics. J Hypertens. 2010;28(5):903-909.
23. Bell B, Rose C, Damon A. The Normative Aging Study: An interdisciplinary and longitudinal study of health and aging. Int J Aging Hum Dev. 1972;3(1):5-17.
24. Thurston GD, Spengler JD. A quantitative assessment of source contributions to inhalable particulate matter pollution in metropolitan Boston. Atmos Environ. 1985;19(1):9-25.
25. Morawska L, Zhang JJ. Combustion sources of particles. 1. Health relevance and source signatures. Chemosphere. 2002;49(9):1045-1058.
26. Dockery DW, Luttmann-Gibson H, Rich DQ, et al. Particulate air pollution and nonfatal cardiac events. Part II. Association of air pollution with confirmed arrhythmias recorded by implanted defibrillators. Res Rep Health Eff Inst. 2005;124:83-126.
27. Chen CH, Nevo E, Fetics B, et al. Estimation of central aortic pressure waveform by mathematical transformation of radial tonometry pressure. Validation of generalized transfer function. Circulation. 1997;95(7):1827-1836.
28. Wilkinson IB, Mohammad NH, Tyrrell S, et al. Heart rate dependency of pulse pressure amplification and arterial stiffness. Am J Hypertens. 2002;15(1 Pt 1):24-30.
29. Fitzmaurice GM, Laird NM, Ware JH. Applied Longitudinal Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience; 2004.
30. Cole SR, Hernán MA. Constructing inverse probability weights for marginal structural models. Am J Epidemiol. 2008;168(6): 656-664.
31. O'Neill MS, Diez-Roux AV, Auchincloss AH, et al. Long-Term exposure to airborne particles and arterial stiffness: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Environ Health Perspect. 2011;119(6):844-851.
32. Lenters V, Uiterwaal CS, Beelen R, et al. Long-Term exposure to air pollution and vascular damage in young adults. Epidemiology. 2010;21(4):512-520.
33. McEniery CM, Wallace S, Mackenzie IS, et al. Endothelial function is associated with pulse pressure, pulse wave velocity, and augmentation index in healthy humans. Hypertension. 2006;48(4):602-608.
34. Soga J, Nakamura S, Nishioka K, et al. Relationship between augmentation index and flow-mediated vasodilation in the brachial artery. Hypertens Res. 2008;31(7):1293-1298.
35. O'Rourke MF, Adji A. An updated clinical primer on large artery mechanics: Implications of pulse waveform analysis and arterial tonometry. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2005;20(4): 275-281.
36. Brown KW, Sarnat JA, Suh HH, et al. Ambient site, home outdoor and home indoor particulate concentrations as proxies of personal exposures. J Environ Monit. 2008;10(9): 1041-1051.
37. Zeger SL, Thomas D, Dominici F, et al. Exposure measurement error in time-series studies of air pollution: Concepts and consequences. Environ Health Perspect. 2000;108(5): 419-426.