Ambient Fine Particulate Matter, Outdoor Temperature, and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome.

ABSTRACT: Ambient air pollution and temperature have been linked with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Metabolic syndrome and its components-abdominal obesity, elevated fasting blood glucose concentration, low high-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration, hypertension, and hypertriglyceridemia-predict cardiovascular disease, but the environmental causes are understudied. In this study, we prospectively examined the long-term associations of air pollution, defined as particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 µm (PM_2.5), and temperature with the development of metabolic syndrome and its components. Using covariate-adjustment Cox proportional hazards models, we estimated associations of mean annual PM_2.5 concentration and temperature wi

SUBMITTER: Wallwork RS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5209587 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature