TY - JOUR
AU1 - Chen, Jiu-Chiuan
AU2 - Schwartz, Joel
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AB - Research Metabolic Syndrome and Inflammatory Responses to Long-Term Particulate Air Pollutants 1,2 2,3 Jiu-Chiuan Chen and Joel Schwartz 1 2 Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; Department of Environmental Health, and Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA exposure. For instance, short-term elevation of ambient PM is associated with increased levels BACKGROUND: Human data linking inflammation with long-term particulate matter (PM) exposure are still lacking. Emerging evidence suggests that people with metabolic syndrome (MS) may be a of inflammatory markers such as white blood more susceptible population. cell (WBC) count (Liao et al. 2005; Schwartz 2001) and C-reactive protein (Peters et al. OBJECTIVES: Our goal was to examine potential inflammatory responses associated with long-term PM exposure and MS-dependent susceptibility. 2001; Pope et al. 2004). However, the link between inflammation and long-term PM METHODS: We conducted secondary analyses of white blood cell (WBC) count and MS data from The Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and PM (PM with aerodynamic exposure in human is still lacking. diameter < 10 µm) data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Aerometric Information The increasing prevalence and large num- 
TI - Metabolic Syndrome and Inflammatory Responses to Long-Term Particulate Air Pollutants
JF - Environmental Health Perspectives
DO - 10.1289/ehp.10565
DA - 2008-05-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/metabolic-syndrome-and-inflammatory-responses-to-long-term-particulate-G4EKydFWMx
DP - DeepDyve
ER -