Association of Heart Rate Variability With Occupational and Environmental Exposure to Particulate Air Pollution

Author:

Magari Shannon R.1,Hauser Russ1,Schwartz Joel1,Williams Paige L.1,Smith Thomas J.1,Christiani David C.1

Affiliation:

1. From the Department of Environmental Health, Occupational Health (S.R.M, R.H., D.C.C.), Environmental Epidemiology (J.S.), and Environmental Science and Engineering (T.J.S) Programs, Harvard School of Public Health; the Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit (D.C.C.), Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School; and the Department of Biostatistics (P.L.W.), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass.

Abstract

Background Airborne particulate matter has been linked to excess morbidity and mortality. Recent attention has focused on the effects of particulate exposure on cardiac autonomic control. Inhaled particulates may affect the autonomic nervous system either directly, by eliciting a sympathetic stress response, or indirectly, through inflammatory cytokines produced in the lungs and released into the circulation. Methods and Results This longitudinal study examined the association of particulates ≤2.5 μm in diameter (PM 2.5 ) with heart rate variability (HRV) in an occupational cohort (N=40). Continuous monitoring of exposure and HR was performed during and away from work. PM 2.5 levels were higher than ambient levels typically reported in Boston, 0.167±3.205 mg/m 3 (geometric mean±geometric SD). We found a 2.66% decrease (95% CI, −3.75% to −1.58%) in the 5-minute SD of normal RR intervals (SDNN) for every 1 mg/m 3 increase in the 4-hour moving PM 2.5 average and a 1.02% increase (95% CI, 0.59% to 1.46%) in HR after adjusting for potential confounding factors. The decrease in SDNN became larger as the averaging interval increased. Conclusions Workers experienced altered cardiac autonomic control after exposure to occupational and environmental PM 2.5 . There appears to be either a long-acting (several hours) and a short-acting (several minutes) component to the mechanism of action that may be related to the production of cytokines and the sympathetic stress response, respectively, or a cumulative effect that begins shortly after exposure begins. The clinical significance of these effects in a healthy working population is unclear.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

Physiology (medical),Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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