Fine particulate matter and incident coronary heart disease in the REGARDS cohort.

ABSTRACT: Chronic exposure to fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) is accepted as a causal risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). However, most of the evidence for this hypothesis is based upon cohort studies in whites, comprised of either only males or females who live in urban areas. It is possible that many estimates of the effect of chronic exposure to PM_2.5 on risk for CHD do not generalize to more diverse samples.

Methods

Therefore, we estimated the relationship between chronic exposure to PM_2.5 and risk for CHD in among participants in the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort who were free from CHD at baseline (n=17,126). REGARDS is a sample of whites and blacks of both genders living across the continental United S

SUBMITTER: Loop MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5819617 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature