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Alternative Title:
Environ Health Perspect
Publisher's site:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/EHP1545
Personal Author:
Abrams, Joseph Y. ; Weber, Rodney J. ; Klein, Mitchel ; Sarnat, Stefanie E. ; Chang, Howard H. ; ... More +
Abrams, Joseph Y. ; Weber, Rodney J. ; Klein, Mitchel ; Sarnat, Stefanie E. ; Chang, Howard H. ; Strickland, Matthew J. ; Verma, Vishal ; Fang, Ting ; Bates, Josephine T. ; Mulholland, James A. ; Russell, Armistead G. ; Tolbert, Paige E. Less -
Description:
Erratum: In the list of authors, the fourth author’s name was misspelled as Stefanie E. Samat. The correct spelling is Stefanie E. Sarnat. The authors regret the error. Environ Health Perspect. 125(12).

Background:

Oxidative potential (OP) has been proposed as a measure of toxicity of ambient particulate matter (PM).

Objectives:

Our goal was to address an important research gap by using daily OP measurements to conduct population-level analysis of the health effects of measured ambient OP.

Methods:

A semi-automated dithiothreitol (DTT) analytical system was used to measure daily average OP (OPDTT) in water-soluble fine PM at a central monitor site in Atlanta, Georgia, over eight sampling periods (a total of 196 d) during June 2012–April 2013. Data on emergency department (ED) visits for selected cardiorespiratory outcomes were obtained for the five-county Atlanta metropolitan area. Poisson log-linear regression models controlling for temporal confounders were used to conduct time-series analyses of the relationship between daily counts of ED visits and either the 3-d moving average (lag 0–2) of OPDTT or same-day OPDTT. Bipollutant regression models were run to estimate the health associations of OPDTT while controlling for other pollutants.

Results:

OPDTT was measured for 196 d (mean=0.32 nmol/min/m3, interquartile range=0.21). Lag 0–2 OPDTT was associated with ED visits for respiratory disease (RR=1.03, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.00, 1.05 per interquartile range increase in OPDTT), asthma (RR=1.12, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.22), and ischemic heart disease (RR=1.19, 95% CI: 1.03, 1.38). Same-day OPDTT was not associated with ED visits for any outcome. Lag 0–2 OPDTT remained a significant predictor of asthma and ischemic heart disease in most bipollutant models.

Conclusions:

Lag 0–2 OPDTT was associated with ED visits for multiple cardiorespiratory outcomes, providing support for the utility of OPDTT as a measure of fine particle toxicity. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP1545


Subject:
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Air Pollution
Cardiovascular Diseases
Emergency Service, Hospital
Environmental Exposure
Humans
Particulate Matter
Research
Respiratory Tract Diseases

Source:
Environ Health Perspect. 125(10).
Pubmed ID:
29084634
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC5933307
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
5T03OH8609-9/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States
Place as Subject:
Georgia
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:13ff9c27d77b167301987fa4ec67a439cabe01d7466aadc849af31f243133683
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