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Spatial association between ambient fine particulate matter and incident hypertension

Hong Chen1, Richard T Burnett, Jeffrey C Kwong

  • 1From Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (H.C., J.C.K., R.C.); Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (H.C., J.C.K., P.J.V., R.C.); Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (H.C., J.C.K., A.K.); Population Studies Division, Health Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (R.T.B.); Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (J.C.K.); Department of Health Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (P.J.V.); Department of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (M.S.G.); Division of Clinical Epidemiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (M.S.G.); Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor (R.D.B.); Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (A.v.D., R.V.M.); Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley (M.J.); Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (R.V.M.); and Air Quality Research Division, Environment Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (J.R.B.).

Circulation
|November 6, 2013
PubMed
Summary

Exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is linked to new cases of hypertension. This population study found a significant association between higher PM2.5 levels and increased hypertension risk.

Keywords:
air pollutioncohort studiesepidemiologyhypertension

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