Exposure to PM2.5 at level near or below existing National Ambient Air Quality Standards was associated with increased hospital admissions in a population of Medicare enrollees. Analyzing records of 32,119 people in 5,138 ZIP codes in the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey between 2002 and 2010, researchers part of the Harvard ACE Center found that average Read More
Tag: epidemiology
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
Temperatures at home and risk of cardiac arrhythmia
High or low temperatures at home were associated with higher risk of heart arrhythmia in elderly men, in a recent study from the Harvard Air Climate & Energy Center. Researchers analyzed electrocardiograms from 2000 to 2010 for 701 men from the Normative Aging cohort around Boston. Temperature at individual residences was obtained from satellite measurements Read More