A common functional variant on the pro-inflammatory Interleukin-6 gene may modify the association between long-term PM10 exposure and diabetes

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Eze, Ikenna C ^a,b   Imboden, Medea ^a,b   Kumar, Ashish ^a,b,c   Adam, Martin ^a,b   Von Eckardstein, Arnold ^d   Stolz, Daiana ^e   Gerbase, Margaret W ^f   Künzli, Nino ^a,b   Turk, Alexander ^g   Schindler, Christian ^a,b   Kronenberg, Florian ^a,h   Probst Hensch, Nicole ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^g Zürcher Höhenklinik Wald ^*  (Switzerland)

^h INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Cross sectional epidemiology; Diabetes mellitus; Gene environment interactions; Interleukin 6 gene; Particulate matter; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INTERLEUKIN 6; AIR POLLUTANT; IL6 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PARTICULATE MATTER;

ALLELE; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIABETES; DISPERSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTION EXPOSURE; POLYMORPHISM; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GLUCOSE HOMEOSTASIS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; IL6 GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AIR POLLUTANT; ALLELE; ANALYSIS; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWITZERLAND; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOXICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; ALLELES; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84977588298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12940-016-0120-5     Document Type: Article

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