Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
Volume 113, Issue 8, Pages 978-982Publisher
US DEPT HEALTH HUMAN SCIENCES PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7550
Keywords
air pollution; cardiovascular diseases; case-crossover; myocardial infarction; particulate matter
Funding
- NIEHS NIH HHS [P30 ES000002, ES0002] Funding Source: Medline
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Recently, attention has focused on whether particulate air pollution is a specific trigger of myocardial infarction (MI). The results of several studies of single locations assessing the effects of ambient particular matter on the risk of MI have been disparate. We used a multicity case-crossover study to examine risk of emergency hospitalization associated with fine particulate matter (PM) with aerodynamic diameter < 10 mu m (PM10) for > 300,000 MIs during 1985-1999 among elderly residents of 21 U.S. cities. We used time-stratified controls matched on day of the week or on temperature to detect possible residual confounding by weather. Overall, we found a 0.65% [95% confidence interval (0), 0.3-1.0%] increased risk of hospitalization for MI per 10 mu g/m(3) increase in ambient PM10 concentration. Matching on apparent temperature yielded a 0.64% increase in risk (95% CI, 0.1-1.2%). We found that the effect size for PM10 doubled for subjects with a previous admission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or a secondary diagnosis of pneumonia, although these differences did not achieve statistical significance. There was a weaker indication of a larger effect on males but no evidence of effect modification by age or the other diagnoses. We also found that the shape of the exposure-response relationship between MI hospitalizations and PM10 is almost linear, but with a steeper slope at levels of PM10 < 50 mu g/m(3). We conclude that increased concentrations of ambient PM10 are associated with increased risk of MI among the elderly.
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