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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 150, No. 10: 1094-1098
Copyright © 1999 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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Increases in Heart Rate during an Air Pollution Episode

Annette Peters1,, Siegfried Perz2, Angela Döring1, Jutta Stieber1, Wolfgang Koenig3 and H.Erich Wichmann1

1GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology Neuherberg, Germany
2GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Medis-Institute Neuherberg, Germany
3Department of Internal Medicine II, Cardiology, University of Ulm Medical Center Ulm, Germany

Reprint requests to Dr. Annette Peters, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Postfach 1129, 85758 Oberschleissheim, Germany.

This paper assesses whether air pollution increases resting heart rates in 2, 681 men and women aged 25–64 years who participated in the MONICA (monitoring of trends and determinants in cardiovascular disease) Augsburg cohort. Increases in heart rate were observed during the air pollution episode in January 1985 compared with non-episode days adjusted for cardiovascular risk factors and meteorologic parameters. Consistently, heart rates were also elevated at high concentrations of sulfur dioxide, total suspended particulates, or carbon monoxide. Acceleration in heart rates indicates an altered autonomic control of the heart in association with air pollution, which may contribute to the observed health effects in association with air pollution. Am J Epidemiol 1999; 150: 1094-8.

air pollution; cardiovascular diseases; heart rate; sulfur dioxide


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