期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
卷 121, 期 1, 页码 92-96出版社
US DEPT HEALTH HUMAN SCIENCES PUBLIC HEALTH SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1205109
关键词
agriculture; air pollution; community-based participatory research; environmental justice; epidemiology; health disparities; odors; psychosocial stress
资金
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) [R01 ES011359]
- Biostatistics for Research in Environmental Health Training Grant from the NIEHS [5-T32-ES07018]
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [CR829522]
- Water and Environment Research Foundation
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES [P30ES010126, T32ES007018, R01ES011359] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
BACKGROUND: Industrial swine operations emit odorant chemicals including ammonia, hydrogen sulfide (H2S), and volatile organic compounds. Malodor and pollutant concentrations have been associated with self-reported stress and altered mood in prior studies. OBJECTIVES: We conducted a repeated-measures study of air pollution, stress, and blood pressure in neighbors of swine operations. METHODS: For approximately 2 weeks, 101 nonsmoking adult volunteers living near industrial swine operations in 16 neighborhoods in eastern North Carolina sat outdoors for 10 min twice daily at preselected times. Afterward, they reported levels of hog odor on a 9-point scale and measured their blood pressure twice using an automated oscillometric device. During the same 2- to 3-week period, we measured ambient levels of H2S and PM10 at a central location in each neighborhood. Associations between systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP, respectively) and pollutant measures were estimated using fixed-effects (conditional) linear regression with adjustment for time of day. RESULTS: PM10 showed little association with blood pressure. DBP [beta (SE)] increased 0.23 (0.08) mmHg per unit of reported hog odor during the 10 min outdoors and 0.12 (0.08) mmHg per 1-ppb increase of H2S concentration in the same hour. SBP increased 0.10 (0.12) mmHg per odor unit and 0.29 (0.12) mmHg per 1-ppb increase of H2S in the same hour. Reported stress was strongly associated with BP; adjustment for stress reduced the odor-DBP association, but the H2S-SBP association changed little. CONCLUSIONS: Like noise and other repetitive environmental stressors, malodors may be associated with acute blood pressure increases that could contribute to development of chronic hypertension.
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