Long-term exposure to air pollution and incidence risk of various arrhythmias: A prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT: To investigate the association of long-term exposure to air pollution with incident arrhythmia from various causes, this prospective cohort study included 442,386 participants from the UK Biobank cohort. Residential annual average exposures at baseline were evaluated, including fine particles (PM_2.5), coarse particles (PM_2.5-10), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), and nitrogen oxides (NO_x). We further constructed a composite air pollution score (APS) to evaluate the concomitant exposure to these four pollutants. The associations of air pollutants with various arrhythmia subtypes were assessed utilizing the Cox proportional hazards model, and the hazard ratios (HRs) for incident arrhythmias were estimated. A total of 41,021 patients with incident arrhythmia

SUBMITTER: Zhou L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11570411 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature