Short-term effects of air pollution: a panel study of blood markers in patients with chronic pulmonary disease

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 6 - Trang 1-13 - 2009
Katharina Hildebrandt1, Regina Rückerl2, Wolfgang Koenig3, Alexandra Schneider2, Mike Pitz4, Joachim Heinrich2, Victor Marder5, Mark Frampton6, Günter Oberdörster7, H Erich Wichmann1,2,8, Annette Peters1,2,8
1Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, IBE Department of Epidemiology, Munich, Germany
2Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Munich, Germany
3University of Ulm Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine II–Cardiology, Ulm, Germany
4Environmental Science Centre, University of Augsburg, Germany
5Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Medicine and Dentistry - Vascular Medicine, Rochester, USA
6Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Medicine and Dentistry - Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Rochester, USA
7Department of Environmental Medicine, Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, USA
8Helmholtz Zentrum München, Focus-Network Aerosols and Health, Munich, Germany

Tóm tắt

Growing evidence indicates that ambient air pollution is associated with exacerbation of chronic diseases like chronic pulmonary disease. A prospective panel study was conducted to investigate short-term changes of blood markers of inflammation and coagulation in response to daily changes in air pollution in Erfurt, Germany. 12 clinical visits were scheduled and blood parameters were measured in 38 male patients with chronic pulmonary disease during winter 2001/2002. Additive mixed models with random patient intercept were applied, adjusting for trend, weekday, and meteorological parameters. Hourly data on ultrafine particles (UFP, 0.01-0.1 μm), accumulation mode particles (ACP, 0.1-1.0 μm), PM10 (particulate matter <10 μm in diameter), elemental (EC) and organic carbon (OC), gaseous pollutants (nitrogen monoxide [NO], nitrogen dioxide [NO2], carbon monoxide [CO], and sulphur dioxide [SO2]) were collected at a central monitoring site and meteorological data were received from an official network. For each person and visit the individual 24-hour average of pollutants immediately preceding the blood withdrawal (lag 0) up to day 5 (lag1-4) and 5-day running means were calculated. Increased levels of fibrinogen were observed for an increase in one interquartile range of UFP, PM10, EC, OC, CO, and NO revealing the strongest effect for lag 3. E-selectin increased in association with ACP and PM10 with a delay of one day. The ACP effect was also seen with the 5-day-mean. The pattern found for D-dimer was inconsistent. Prothrombin fragment 1+2 decreased with lag 4 consistently for all particulate pollutants. Von Willebrand factor antigen (vWF) showed a consistent decrease in association with almost all air pollutants with all lags except for lag 0. No associations were found for C-reactive protein, soluble intercellular adhesion molecule 1, serum amyloid A and factor VII. These results suggest that elevated concentrations of air pollution are associated with changes in some blood markers of inflammation and coagulation in patients with chronic pulmonary disease. The clinical implications of these findings need further investigation.

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