Fossil-fuel and combustion-related air pollution and hypertension in the Sister Study.

ABSTRACT: Hypertension is a leading risk factor for disease burden, with more than 200 million disability-adjusted life-years attributed to high blood pressure in 2015. While outdoor air pollution is associated with cardiovascular disease, the joint effect of exposure to air pollution from combustion products on hypertension has rarely been studied. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis to explore the association between combustion-related air pollution and hypertension. Census-tract levels of ambient concentrations of nine fossil-fuel and combustion-related air toxics (biphenyl, naphthalene, polycyclic organic matter, diesel emissions, 1,3-butadiene, acetaldehyde, benzene, acrolein, and formaldehyde) from the 2005 National Air Toxics Assessment database and NO₂ from 2005 monitoring dat

SUBMITTER: Xu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9746069 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature