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Effects of ambient air pollution on functional status in patients with chronic congestive heart failure: a repeated-measures study

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العنوان: Effects of ambient air pollution on functional status in patients with chronic congestive heart failure: a repeated-measures study
المؤلفون: Phillips Russell S, Suh Helen H, Coull Brent A, Yeh Gloria Y, Wellenius Gregory A, Mittleman Murray A
المصدر: Environmental Health, Vol 6, Iss 1, p 26 (2007)
بيانات النشر: BMC, 2007.
سنة النشر: 2007
المجموعة: LCC:Industrial medicine. Industrial hygiene
LCC:Public aspects of medicine
مصطلحات موضوعية: Industrial medicine. Industrial hygiene, RC963-969, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270
الوصف: Abstract Background Studies using administrative data report a positive association between ambient air pollution and the risk of hospitalization for congestive heart failure (HF). Circulating levels of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) are directly associated with cardiac hemodynamics and symptom severity in patients with HF and, therefore, serves as a marker of functional status. We tested the hypothesis that BNP levels would be positively associated with short-term changes in ambient pollution levels among 28 patients with chronic stable HF and impaired systolic function. Methods BNP was measured in whole blood at 0, 6, and 12 weeks. We used linear mixed models to evaluate the association between fine particulate matter (PM2.5), carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and black carbon and log(BNP). Lags of 0 to 3 days were considered in separate models. We calculated the intraclass correlation coefficient and within-subject coefficient of variation as measures of reproducibility. Results We found no association between any pollutant and measures of BNP at any lag. For example, a 10 μg/m3 increase in PM2.5 was associated with a 0.8% (95% CI: -16.4, 21.5; p = 0.94) increase in BNP on the same day. The within-subject coefficient of variation was 45% on the natural scale and 9% on the log scale. Conclusion These results suggest that serial BNP measurements are unlikely to be useful in a longitudinal study of air pollution-related acute health effects. The magnitude of expected ambient air pollution health effects appears small in relation to the considerable within-person variability in BNP levels in this population.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1476-069X
العلاقة: http://www.ehjournal.net/content/6/1/26Test; https://doaj.org/toc/1476-069XTest
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-6-26
الوصول الحر: https://doaj.org/article/8f2653263af143febd2d6d0bcbdb563cTest
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.8f2653263af143febd2d6d0bcbdb563c
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:1476069X
DOI:10.1186/1476-069X-6-26