Particulate Pollution and Endothelial Function

Diabetes enhances vulnerability to particulate air pollution-associated impairment in vascular reactivity and endothelial function.

BACKGROUND Epidemiological studies suggest that people with diabetes are vulnerable to cardiovascular health effects associated with exposure to particle air pollution. Endothelial and vascular function is impaired in diabetes and may be related to increased cardiovascular risk. We examined whether endothelium-dependent and -independent vascular reactivity was associated with particle exposure ...

Particulate pollution and endothelial function: déjà vu all over again in the air.

Copyright © 2005 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online 72514 Circulation is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.105.540872 2005;111;2869-2871 Circulation Sanjay Rajagopalan, Qinghua Sun and Lung Chi Chen Air Particulate Pollution and Endothelial Function: Déjà Vu All Over Again in th...

Particulate Air Pollution and Infant Mortality

Exposure to Fine Particulate Air Pollution Is Associated With Endothelial Injury and Systemic Inflammation.

RATIONALE Epidemiological evidence indicates that exposures to fine particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) contribute to global burden of disease, primarily as a result of increased risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. However, mechanisms by which PM2.5 exposure induces cardiovascular injury remain unclear. PM2.5-induced endothelial dysfunction and systemic inflammation have been i...

Particulate air pollution and the blood.

BACKGROUND Particulate air pollution has been associated with excess deaths from, and increases in hospital admissions for, cardiovascular disease among older people. A study was undertaken to determine whether this may be a consequence of alterations in the blood, secondary to pulmonary inflammation caused by the action of fine particles on alveolar cells, by repeatedly measuring haematologica...