Personal exposure to particulate matter and heart rate variability among informal electronic waste workers at Agbogbloshie: a longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Informal electronic waste recycling activities are major contributors to ambient air pollution, yet studies assessing the effects or relationship between direct/continuous exposure of informal e-waste workers to particulate matter and cardiovascular function are rare.

Methods

Repeated measurements of fractions of PM_2.5, PM_10-2.5, and PM₁₀ in personal air of informal e-waste workers, (n = 142) and a comparable group (n = 65) were taken over a period of 20 months (March 2017 to November, 2018). Concurrently, 5-min resting electrocardiogram was performed on each participant to assess resting heart rate variability indices. Linear mixed-effects models were used to assess the association between PM fractions and cardiac function.

Res

SUBMITTER: Amoabeng Nti AA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8613947 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature