[cleanairuk_news] Health Effects of Air Quality and Noise - update July 2017
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* Health Effects of Air Quality and Noise - update July 2017 *
By Barbara Rimmington, Researcher, East End Quality of Life Initiative
(Previous edition - June 2017:
http://cleanairuk.org/pipermail/news_cleanairuk.org/2017-June/000114.html)
(Index for previous issues:
http://www.cleanairuk.org/health-air-pollution.html)
*CONTENTS*
1) Effects of aircraft noise exposure on saliva cortisol near airports
in France
2) High Levels of Prenatal Air Pollution Exposure and Stress Increase
Risk of Childhood Asthma
3) Individual exposure to nitrogen dioxide and adverse pregnancy
outcomes in Kaunas study
4) Individual and Joint Effects of Early-Life Ambient PM2.5 Exposure
and Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity on Childhood Overweight or Obesity
5) Short-term effects of weather and air pollution on atopic
dermatitis symptoms in children: A panel study in Korea
6) Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Serum Inflammatory
Cytokines in Children
7) Traffic-related air pollution and spectacles use in schoolchildren
8) The joint effect of air pollution exposure and copy number
variation on risk for autism
9) Fine particulate matter exposure and incidence of stroke : A cohort
study in Hong Kong
10) Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and traffic noise and
incident hypertension in seven cohorts of the European study of
cohorts for air pollution effects (ESCAPE)
11) Analysis of Temporal Variability in the Short-term Effects of
Ambient Air Pollutants on Nonaccidental Mortality in Rome, Italy
(1998–2014)
12) Airborne Particulate Matter Induces Nonallergic Eosinophilic
Sinonasal Inflammation in Mice
13) Connect the dots: Air quality, industrial strategy and smart mobility
14) Air pollution abatement performances of green infrastructure in
open road and built-up street canyon environments – A review
15) Impacts on air pollution and health by changing commuting from car
to bicycle
16) Do environmental concerns affect commuting choices?: hybrid choice
modelling with household survey data
17) B vitamins attenuate the epigenetic effects of ambient fine
particles in a pilot human intervention trial
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1) Effects of aircraft noise exposure on saliva cortisol near airports
in France
Marie Lefèvre, Marie-Christine Carlier, Patricia Champelovier, Jacques
Lambert, Bernard Laumon, Anne-Sophie Evrard
These findings provide some support for a psychological stress induced
by aircraft noise exposure, resulting in HPA dysregulation and a
flattened cortisol rhythm, thus contributing to cardiovascular diseases.
OEM 74;8 2017 - read abstract (http://oem.bmj.com/content/74/8/612)
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2) High Levels of Prenatal Air Pollution Exposure and Stress Increase
Risk of Childhood Asthma
Reported at the American Thoracic Society 2017 International
Conference, from May 19 – 24, 2017
Our data suggested that all children born to women experiencing
increased levels of air pollution and stress during the prenatal
period are particularly at increased risk of developing asthma in
early childhood.
Primary Care News · May 24, 2017 - read abstract
(http://www.practiceupdate.com/news/16135/2/6?elsca1=emc_enews_daily-digest&elsca2=email&elsca3=practiceupdate_primary&elsca4=primary-care&elsca5=newsletter&rid=MjQ1ODY3NDQ1NDMyS0&lid=10332481)
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3) Individual exposure to nitrogen dioxide and adverse pregnancy
outcomes in Kaunas study
Audrius Dedele, Regina Grazuleviciene, Aukse Miskinyte
The results of the logistic regression analysis showed that LBW risk
increased statistically significantly with increasing exposure to NO2.
Increased maternal exposure to NO2 tended to increase the risk for
TLBW, SGA and PB.
International Journal of Environmental Health Research 27;3 2017 -
read abstract
(http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09603123.2017.1332348)
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4) Individual and Joint Effects of Early-Life Ambient PM2.5 Exposure
and Maternal Prepregnancy Obesity on Childhood Overweight or Obesity
Guangyun Mao, Rebecca Massa Nachman, Qi Sun, Xingyou Zhang, Kirsten
Koehler, Zhu Chen, Xiumei Hong, Guoying Wang, Deanna Caruso, Geng
Zong, Colleen Pearson, Hongkai Ji, Shyam Biswal, Barry Zuckerman,
Marsha Wills-Karp, Xiaobin Wang
In the present study, we observed that early life exposure to PM2.5
may play an important role in the early life origins of COWO and may
increase the risk of COWO in children of mothers who were overweight
or obese before pregnancy beyond the risk that can be attributed to
MPBMI alone. Our findings emphasize the clinical and public health
policy relevance of early life PM2.5 exposure.
Environ Health Perspect; DOI:10.1289/EHP261 - read article
(https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP261)
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5) Short-term effects of weather and air pollution on atopic
dermatitis symptoms in children: A panel study in Korea
Young-Min Kim, Jihyun Kim, Youngshin Han, Byoung-Hak Jeon, Hae-Kwan
Cheong, Kangmo Ahn
Exposure to meteorological variables and air pollutants are associated
with AD symptoms in young children.
PlosOne April 2017 - read article
(https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0175229)
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6) Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution and Serum Inflammatory
Cytokines in Children
Olena Gruzieva, Simon Kebede Merid, Anna Gref, Ashwini Gajulapuri,
Nathanaël Lemonnier, Stéphane Ballereau, Bruna Gigante, Juha Kere,
Charles Auffray, Erik Melén, Göran Pershagen
Our results indicate alterations in systemic inflammatory markers in
8-y-old children in relation to early-life exposure to traffic-related
air pollution.
Environ Health Perspect; DOI:10.1289/EHP460 - read article
(https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP460)
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7) Traffic-related air pollution and spectacles use in schoolchildren
Payam Dadvand, Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, Xavier Basagaña, Mar
Alvarez-Pedrerol, Albert Dalmau-Bueno, Marta Cirach, Ioar Rivas, Bert
Brunekreef, Xavier Querol, Ian G. Morgan, Jordi Sunyer
We observed increased risk of spectacles use associated with exposure
to traffic-related air pollution. These findings require further
confirmation by future studies applying more refined outcome measures
such as quantified visual acuity and separating different types of
refractive errors.
PlosOne April 2017 - read article
(https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0167046)
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8) The joint effect of air pollution exposure and copy number
variation on risk for autism
Dokyoon Kim, Heather Volk, Santhosh Girirajan, Sarah Pendergrass,
Molly A. Hall, Shefali S. Verma, Rebecca J. Schmidt, Robin L. Hansen,
Debashis Ghosh, Yunin Ludena-Rodriguez, Kyoungmi Kim, Marylyn D.
Ritchie, Irva Hertz-Picciotto, Scott B. Selleck
These findings appear to be the first indication that global copy
number variation may increase susceptibility to certain environmental
factors, and underscore the need to consider both genomics and
environmental exposures as well as the mechanisms by which each may
amplify the risks for autism associated with the other.
Autism Research 2017 - read abstract
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.1799/full)
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9) Fine particulate matter exposure and incidence of stroke : A cohort
study in Hong Kong
Hong Qiu, Shengzhi Sun, Hilda Tsang, Chit-Ming Wong, Ruby Siu-yin Lee,
C. Mary Schooling, Linwei Tian
Long-term PM2.5 exposure was associated with higher risk of incident
ischemic stroke, but the association with incident hemorrhagic stroke
was less clear.
Neurology May 2017 88:18 1709-1717 - read abstract
(http://dx.doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000003903)
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10) Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and traffic noise and
incident hypertension in seven cohorts of the European study of
cohorts for air pollution effects (ESCAPE)
Kateryna B Fuks, Gudrun Weinmayr, Xavier Basagaña, Olena Gruzieva,
Regina Hampel, Bente Oftedal, Mette Sørensen, Kathrin Wolf, Geir
Aamodt, Gunn Marit Aasvang
Long-term residential exposures to air pollution and noise are
associated with increased incidence of self-reported hypertension.
Eur Heart J (2017) 38 (13): 983-990 - read abstract
(https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehw413)
11) Analysis of Temporal Variability in the Short-term Effects of
Ambient Air Pollutants on Nonaccidental Mortality in Rome, Italy
(1998–2014)
Matteo Renzi, Massimo Stafoggia, Annunziata Faustini, Giulia Cesaroni,
Giorgio Cattani, Francesco Forastiere
Mean concentrations of air pollutants have decreased over the last two
decades in Rome, but effect estimates for a fixed increment in each
exposure were generally consistent. These findings suggest that there
has been little or no change in the overall toxicity of the air
pollution mixture over time.
Environ Health Perspect; DOI:10.1289/EHP19 - read article
(https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP19)
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12) Airborne Particulate Matter Induces Nonallergic Eosinophilic
Sinonasal Inflammation in Mice
Murugappan Ramanathan Jr., Nyall R. London Jr., Anuj Tharakan , Nitya
Surya , Thomas E. Sussan , Xiaoquan Rao , Sandra Y. Lin , Elina
Toskala , Sanjay Rajagopalan , Shyam Biswal
Collectively, although largely observational, these studies
demonstrate the destructive effects of chronic airborne PM exposure on
the sinonasal airway barrier disruption and nonallergic eosinophilic
inflammation in mice.
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology 57:1 Jul
2017 - read abstract (https://doi.org/10.1165/rcmb.2016-0351OC)
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13) Connect the dots: Air quality, industrial strategy and smart mobility
Quilter-Pinner, H and Laybourn-Langton, L
"Of particular concern to human health are nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and
particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.522), as both are recorded at high
concentrations across the UK, and because the evidence linking them to
poor health is strong (Defra 2015a). Indeed, experts estimate that
29,000 ‘equivalent’ deaths are caused annually from exposure to PM2.5
in the UK (COMEAP 2010) – a figure which increases to 40,000 when also
considering the related effects of NO2 (RCP 2016). The subsequent
costs to the NHS and the economy (in terms of working days lost) is
estimated at more than £20 billion every year (RCP 2016)".
IPPR (2017) 24pp - read report
(http://www.ippr.org/publications/free-movement-and-the-eu-referendum)
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14) Air pollution abatement performances of green infrastructure in
open road and built-up street canyon environments – A review
K.V.Abhijith, Prashant Kumar, John Gallagher, Aonghus McNabola,
Richard Baldauf, Francesco Pilla, Brian Broderick, Silvana Di
Sabatino, Beatrice Pulvirenti
Green infrastructure can play a significant role in mitigating urban
air pollution. Air quality changes in local built environments due to
vegetation are assessed. Low-level hedges improves air quality in
street canyons unlike high-level trees. Green green walls and roofs
are effective to reduce pollution in streets/open roads. Prior design
of green infrastructure should be performed for improving air quality.
Atmospheric Environment 162, August 2017, 71-86 - read article
(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.05.014)
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15) Impacts on air pollution and health by changing commuting from car
to bicycle
Christer Johansson, Boel Lövenheim, Peter Schantz, Lina Wahlgren,
Peter Almström, Anders Markstedt, Magnus Strömgren, Bertil Forsberg,
Johan NilssonSommar
A very large potential for transferring car commuters to cycling; more
than 111 000 car commuters shifting. Reduced vehicle emission and
thereby reduced population exposure, saves 449 years of life annually
in Stockholm County. This is more than double the effect estimated in
connection with the introduction of congestion tax in Stockholm.
Science of The Total Environment 584–585 April 2017 55-63 - read
article (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.01.145)
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16) Do environmental concerns affect commuting choices?: hybrid choice
modelling with household survey data
Jennifer Roberts, Gurleen Popli, Rosemary J. Harris
Our results suggest that environmental attitudes have an important
influence on commute mode choice, and this can be exploited by
governments looking to add to their climate change policy toolbox in
an effort to change travel behaviours.
J. R. Stat. Soc. A. doi:10.1111/rssa.12274 - read article
(http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rssa.12274/full)
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17) B vitamins attenuate the epigenetic effects of ambient fine
particles in a pilot human intervention trial
Jia Zhonga, Oskar Karlssonb, Guan Wang, Jun Li,, Yichen Guo, Xinyi
Lin, Michele Zemplenyi, Marco Sanchez-Guerra, Letizia Trevisi, Bruce
Urch, Mary Speck, Liming Liang, Brent A. Coull, Petros Koutrakis,
Frances Silverman, Diane R. Gold, Tangchun Wu, Andrea A. Baccarelli
Our study indicates that individual-level prevention may be used to
complement regulations and control potential mechanistic pathways
underlying the adverse PM2.5 effects, with possible significant public
health benefit in areas with frequent PM2.5 peaks.
PNAS 114:13 3503–3508 - read abstract
(http://www.pnas.org/content/114/13/3503.abstract)
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