A Peters

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..These pathomechanisms may contribute to the observed associations between ambient air pollution concentrations and cardiovascular disease exacerbation such as hospitalisation and mortality due to cardiovascular diseases...

..This study was designed to assess whether exposure to traffic can trigger myocardial infarction...

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..While this concept is consistent with the current understanding of the factors defining patients' vulnerability, the mechanisms and the time-scales on which the particle-induced vulnerability might operate are unknown...

..Ambient particulate matter has been associated with systemic inflammation indicated by blood markers such as fibrinogen, implicated in promoting atherothrombosis...

..003-1.060. No association between fine particle MC and mortality was found. This study shows that UFP, representing fresh combustion particles, may be an important component of urban air pollution associated with health effects...

..The objective of this study was to examine in detail the registry-based myocardial infarction (MI) rates and coronary deaths in relation to air temperature in the area of Augsburg, Germany...

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..This analysis assessed the association between blood pressure, meteorology, and air pollution in a random population sample...

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..The increase of particulate and gaseous air pollution was associated with multiple changes in the differential white blood cell count in patients with chronic pulmonary diseases...

..The objective of this study was to analyze the association between air temperature and C-reactive protein, interleukin-6 and fibrinogen in postmyocardial infarction patients...

..The correlations found between formation of reactive oxygen species and the presence of specific organic compounds suggests an important influence of biomass combustion particles in PM2.5-associated oxidative stress...

..Thus, aim of this analysis is to determine whether hypertension and antihypertensive medication have an adverse effect on lung function in a general adult population...

..rho2.5 has the potential to serve as a crude tracer for chemical composition and atmospheric processing and might play an important role when considering the associations between health effects and ambient particles...

..A joint analysis of the role of risk factors in predicting mean concentrations and variation of high-sensitivity CRP (hsCRP) in serum has not been carried out previously...

..The results suggest that reported asthma medication use and symptoms increase in association with particulate air pollution and gaseous pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide...

..If these effects are confirmed by ongoing research, monitoring and regulation of particulate air pollution may need to be revised...

..The study demonstrates that the described QC and QA measures define both a high accuracy of the PSD measurements and their long-term comparability against data obtained in similar measurement programmes...

..Numerous studies have found that ambient air pollution has been associated with cardiovascular disease exacerbation...

..In this study, we aimed to explore the relationship between ECG and biochemical markers in a longitudinal study of coronary patients...

..However, particle effects might differ in cardiac patients because of medication intake and disease status, both affecting the autonomic control of the heart...

..Ambient air pollution has been shown to be associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality...

..We investigated the associations between temperature and several blood markers in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) and pulmonary disease (PD)...

..This study provides evidence suggesting an immediate effect of air pollution on repolarization duration, morphology, and variability representing myocardial substrate and vulnerability, key factors in the mechanisms of cardiac death...

..These results suggest that traffic-related and combustion-generated particles show stronger adverse health impact with regard to cardiac effects, and that particles from different sources induce an acute phase response in these patients...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate the short-term effects of urban air pollution on cardiac hospital readmissions in survivors of myocardial infarction, a potentially susceptible subpopulation...

..We evaluated whether the risk of having an AMI triggered by physical exertion exhibits an exposure-response relationship, and whether it varies by ambient temperature or by taking place indoors or outdoors...

..CONCLUSION: Elevated concentrations of fine and ultrafine particle increased the risk of arrhythmia in men with coronary heart disease...

..Numerous studies have shown associations between ambient air pollution and daily mortality...

..Further studies are therefore needed to substantiate our current understanding of the pathophysiological links between PM exposure and adverse cardiovascular outcomes...

..The study assessed the association between deceleration capacity (DC) as well as heart rate variability (HRV) and ambient particulate matter (PM) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD)...

..This study examined effects of short-term exposures to ambient PM2.5 on markers of systemic inflammation, coagulation, autonomic control of heart rate, and repolarization in 22 adults (mean age: 61 years) with type 2 diabetes...

..The observed effect on ST-segment depression could be a link between the association of weather changes and cardiovascular morbidity and mortality...

..This study evaluated the association of gene polymorphisms with differences in C-reactive protein concentrations and assessed its intra-individual variability as a marker of individual response...

..The aim of this study was to examine the association between age at menarche and prediabetes as well as diabetes, considering confounding factors and the possible mediating role of adult obesity...

..The aim of this study was to compare healthcare quality and medical endpoints between diabetes management programme participants and patients receiving usual care designated as controls...

..5))] has been associated with cardiovascular and hematologic effects, especially in older people with cardiovascular disease. Some epidemiologic studies suggest that adults with diabetes also may be a particularly susceptible population...

..In situations with more substantial error, the presented approach using duplicate genotyping and the MC-SIMEX method is practical and helpful for quantifying the genotyping error and its impact...

..5 years) and longer-term goals. It consists of six sections: biological mechanisms, acute effects, chronic effects, dosimetry, exposure assessment, and the specific attributes of a coordinated PM centers program...

..18%) compared with elderly and athletes (both 5%). The results suggest that children and asthmatics have a higher risk of being ozone sensitive showing more ozone related acute lung function decrements than other population groups...

..We therefore assessed the associations between levels of the 3 main modes of urban aerosol distribution and the occurrence of ST-segment depressions during repeated exercise tests...

..Out-of-hospital coronary heart disease death is a major public health problem, but the association with air pollution is not well understood...

..The study pointed out the influence of the selection of the measurement site and the configuration of the sampling line on the observed concentrations...

..A single background measurement site may not be sufficient for exposure assessment in these studies without taking spatial and temporal variability into account...

..5 and HRV. The results suggest that the cardiovascular effects of ambient ultrafine and PM2.5 can differ from each other and that their effect may be modified by the characteristics of the exposed subjects and the sources of PM2.5...

..Our results suggest that the PM fraction originating from combustion processes, notably traffic, exacerbates ischemic heart diseases associated with PM mass...

..Like the SVOC, the factors showed strong seasonality with highest values in winter for factors 1-4 and in summer for factor 5...

..Implementation of Lp-PLA(2) measurement into clinical practice, however, requires data on the reliability of such measurements...

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..We also searched for genetic determinants affecting the responses of fibrinogen genes to proinflammatory stimulation...

..The aim of our study was to determine whether differences exist in the degree of LDL oxidation in stable CAD patients from different regions of Europe...