Personal exposure to particulate air pollution and vascular damage in peri-urban South India.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Air pollution is a leading preventable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Previous studies mostly relied on concentrations at residence, which might not represent personal exposure. Personal air pollution exposure has a greater variability compared with levels of ambient air pollution, facilitating evaluation of exposure-response functions and vascular pathophysiology. We aimed to evaluate the association between predicted annual personal exposure to PM_2.5 and black carbon (BC) and three vascular damage markers in peri-urban South India.

Methods

We analyzed the third wave of the APCAPS cohort (2010-2012), which recruited participants from 28 villages. We used predicted personal exposure to PM_2.5 and BC derived from 610 participant-days o

SUBMITTER: Ranzani OT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7267772 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature