Proximity to roadways was associated with modestly higher blood glucose levels in healthy people, in a study supported by the Harvard Clean Air Research Center and the ACE center. Participants in the Framingham Offspring and Third generation cohorts (average age 51 years) in New England, who were without diabetes, and were examined for a variety Read More
Tag: metabolic syndrome
Traffic and fatty liver disease
Proximity to major roadways was associated with fat accumulation in the liver, in a recently published study from the Harvard Clean Air Research Center. Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (hepatic steatosis) is a common condition, closely linked with indicators of cardiometabolic syndrome (cardiovascular disease and insulin resistance). Over 2,000 participants from the Framingham Offspring Study and Read More
Metabolic syndrome and susceptibility to air pollution
Metabolic syndrome increased susceptibility to the cardiovascular effects of exposure to PM2.5 in rodents, in a recent toxicological study. Metabolic syndrome was induced in a group or rats through a high-fructose diet, while control animals were maintained on a normal diet. Both groups were exposed to primary traffic PM2.5 and to photochemically-aged secondary organic aerosol, Read More
Air pollution, oxidative stress, and CVD
Oxidative stress was found to be associated with short-term exposure to air pollution in a community study reported in the Journal of the American Heart Association. Although the association has been reported in limited controlled exposure studies, researchers at the Harvard Clean Air Research Center (83479801) observed that exposure to PM2.5, Black carbon (BC), and Read More
Noise, air pollution, and cardiometabolic disease
A 2-part review on the association between noise and air pollution and cardio-metabolic disease (part 1, part 2) has been published in the European Heart Journal. The first part of the review focuses on the epidemiological evidence linking noise and air pollution with cardiovascular and metabolic disease. In particular, the evidence for interaction between these Read More