Long-term associations of modeled and self-reported measures of exposure to air pollution and noise at residence on prevalent hypertension and blood pressure

Pitchika, Anitha; Hampel, Regina; Wolf, Kathrin; Kraus, Ute; Cyrys, Josef; Babisch, Wolfgang; Peters, Annette; Schneider, Alexandra

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.156

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“…Studies on traffic noise exposure found out that objectively measured noise data and subjective noise annoyance showed weak to fair correlations [10,11,19,20,21,22,23]. Health related studies investigating both subjective and objective measures of noise exposures found out that objectively measured noise levels were more consistent in predicting cardiovascular health outcomes [10,20]. On the other hand, Nivison and Endresen found out that only perceived noise annoyance was associated with reported health complaints and sleeping problems, whereas objective noise levels showed no significant association [19].…”

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Relations between Objective and Perceived Built Environments and the Modifying Role of Individual Socioeconomic Position. A Cross-Sectional Study on Traffic Noise and Urban Green Space in a Large German City

Schüle

Nanninga

Dreger

et al. 2018

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Perceived annoyance due to traffic noise and lack of urban green space is mostly determined using data from self-administered questionnaires. However, there is still no clear evidence to what extent such perceived measures are related to objectively assessed environmental data and whether socioeconomic dimensions modify such relationships. In a cross-sectional study in Dortmund, Germany, georeferenced home addresses from parents with preschool aged children were used to analyse relations between exposures to objectively measured green space and traffic noise and subjective annoyance due to noise and lack of green space with the additional consideration of socioeconomic characteristics as effect modifiers. Higher perceived annoyance correlated with higher objectively measured traffic noise and lower objectively measured green, respectively. Stratified logistic regression models indicated a modifying role of socioeconomic characteristics. The strengths of associations between objectively measured environmental exposures and perceived annoyance differed by socioeconomic strata. Especially for noise, odds ratios were higher in low socioeconomic strata than in high socioeconomic strata. Therefore, using objective measures of the built environment as a proxy for individual perception should be made with caution as negative relations between objectively assessed built environments and health could be underestimated when considering individual socioeconomic position only as a confounder.

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Relations between Objective and Perceived Built Environments and the Modifying Role of Individual Socioeconomic Position. A Cross-Sectional Study on Traffic Noise and Urban Green Space in a Large German City

Schüle

Nanninga

Dreger

et al. 2018

IJERPH

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“…To control the effect of long-term road traffic noise, annual average Day-Night Sound Level (dB(A) Leq) was estimated for each participant's home address using the model developed by ACCON GmbH. 19…”

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Long-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Ankle-Brachial Index

Zhang¹,

Wolf²,

Breitner³

et al. 2018

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Aims:To examine the long-term effects of air pollution on the prevalence of low and high ankle-brachial index (ABI). Methods and Results:This cross-sectional study involved 4,544 participants from the KORA Study (2004 in the region of Augsburg, Germany. Participants' residential annual mean concentrations of particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide were predicted with land-use regression models, and the traffic information was collected from geographic information systems. We applied multinomial logistic regression models to assess the effects of air pollution on the prevalence of low and high ABI, and quantile regression models to explore the non-monotonic relationship between air pollution and ABI. Long-term exposure to particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤ 10 µm (PM10) and ≤ 2.5 µm (PM2.5) was significantly associated with the prevalence of low ABI (ABI < 0.9), with the respective odds ratios (ORs) of 1.78 (95%CI: 1.09-2.92) and 1.63 (95%CI: 1.03-2.58) for an increment from the 5th to the 95th percentile in concentration. For high ABI (ABI > 1.3), the association was significant for PM2.5 absorbance (OR = 1.54, 95%CI: 1.07-2.24) and traffic load within 100 m of the residence (OR = 1.39, 95%CI: 1.04-1.86). Quantile regression analyses revealed similar results. Conclusion:Long-term exposure to particulate matter and traffic-related air pollution was associated with higher prevalence of low and high ABI, respectively, indicating the adverse effects of air pollution on atherosclerosis and arterial stiffness in lower extremities.

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“…In humans, elevated levels and/or long-term exposure to air pollutants can cause congenital anomalies and preterm births (Jacobs et al, 2016) (Gianicolo et al, 2014). Chronic air pollution is also associated with hypertension (Pitchika et al, 2017) cardiovascular diseases (Burroughs Pena and Rollins, 2017) (Brook et al, 2010) and respiratory issues (Moustris et al, 2016) (Tsangari et al, 2016). Other reports associate air pollution to cancer such as lung cancer (Kanwal et al, 2017) (Raaschou-Nielsen et al, 2013 (Bidoli et al, 2016) (Pope et al, 2002), pediatric cancer (Ortega-Garcia et al, 2017) (Lavigne et al, 2017), breast cancer (Gonzales et al, 2017) (Keramatinia et al, 2016), liver cancer , kidney cancer (Raaschou-Nielsen et al, 2017), gastric cancer (Chiu et al, 2011), and an elevated risk of cancer in various other digestive accessory organs (Wong et al, 2016).…”

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A clean environmental week: Let the nature breathe

Moustafa

2017

Science of The Total Environment

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High levels of CO emissions in the atmosphere and toxic pollutants in air, water and food have serious repercussions on all life's systems, including living beings, environment and economy. Everyone on the Earth is concerned by pollution in some way or another, no matter where and how the pollution is produced as airborne and foodborne pollutants could circulate around the world in different ways, through for example climate components (wind, rain) and/or import and export of foodstuffs. Similarly to living beings that take advantage of day-night circadian rhythms to recover after diurnal hardships, the environment in its entirety could also be seen as a complex living system that needs regular breaks to assimilate or ingest toxic pollutants produced during intensive and continuous industrial processes. If greenhouses gas emissions and pollution rates continue to increase at the same rates as they are nowadays, uncontrollable climate effects might be inevitable and the air quality in some crowded cities in the world might be hardly respirable in the future. A global "Clean Environmental Week" is discussed as an attempt toward reducing air pollution and CO emissions through the interruption or reduction of industrial polluting activities regularly, for a week or so per year, to let the nature 'breathe' and recover from environmentally challenging pollutions. A clean environmental period of 10 days per year could reduce CO emissions by about one billion tons of CO per annum.

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Long-term associations of modeled and self-reported measures of exposure to air pollution and noise at residence on prevalent hypertension and blood pressure

Cited by 66 publications

References 59 publications

Relations between Objective and Perceived Built Environments and the Modifying Role of Individual Socioeconomic Position. A Cross-Sectional Study on Traffic Noise and Urban Green Space in a Large German City

Relations between Objective and Perceived Built Environments and the Modifying Role of Individual Socioeconomic Position. A Cross-Sectional Study on Traffic Noise and Urban Green Space in a Large German City

Long-Term Effects of Air Pollution on Ankle-Brachial Index

A clean environmental week: Let the nature breathe

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