SynthesisEpidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.)2014
Estimating personal exposures from ambient air pollution measures: using meta-analysis to assess measurement error.
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- Personal PMToxics · 2026Article
- Exposure measurement error in air pollution health effect studies: a pooled analysis of personal exposure validation studies in 17 communities across the United States.International journal of environmental health research · 2025Article
- Metabolomic evaluation of air pollution-related bone damage and potential mediation in Women's Health Initiative participants.Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research · 2025Article
- Long-term exposure to ambient particulate matter and stroke etiology: Results from the Women's Health Initiative.Environmental research · 2023Article
- Air pollution and decreased bone mineral density among Women's Health Initiative participants.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
- Gaseous air pollutants and DNA methylation in a methylome-wide association study of an ethnically and environmentally diverse population of U.S. adults.Environmental research · 2022Article
- Association of long-term exposure to PMBMC public health · 2022Article
- Environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease: lessons learned from air pollution.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2020Review
- Air pollution-associated changes in biomarkers of diabetes risk.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2019Article
- Soot and the city: Evaluating the impacts of Clean Heat policies on indoor/outdoor air quality in New York City apartments.PloS one · 2018Article
- Long-term exposure to residential ambient fine and coarse particulate matter and incident hypertension in post-menopausal women.Environment international · 2017Article
- Genome-wide Association Study of Susceptibility to Particulate Matter-Associated QT Prolongation.Environmental health perspectives · 2017Article
- Long-Term Ambient Residential Traffic-Related Exposures and Measurement Error-Adjusted Risk of Incident Lung Cancer in the Netherlands Cohort Study on Diet and Cancer.Environmental health perspectives · 2015Article
- The association of long-term exposure to PM2.5 on all-cause mortality in the Nurses' Health Study and the impact of measurement-error correction.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2015Article
- Acute effects of outdoor air pollution on emergency department visits due to five clinical subtypes of coronary heart diseases in shanghai, china.Journal of epidemiology · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundAlthough ambient concentrations of particulate matter ≤10 μm (PM10) are often used as proxies for total personal exposure, correlation (r) between ambient and personal PM10 concentrations varies. Factors underlying this variation and its effect on health outcome-PM exposure relationships remain poorly understood.
methodsWe conducted a random-effects meta-analysis to estimate effects of study, participant, and environmental factors on r; used the estimates to impute personal exposure from ambient PM10 concentrations among 4,012 nonsmoking, participants with diabetes in the Women's Health Initiative clinical trial; and then estimated the associations of ambient and imputed personal PM10 concentrations with electrocardiographic measures, such as heart rate variability.
resultsWe identified 15 studies (in years 1990-2009) of 342 participants in five countries. The median r was 0.46 (range = 0.13 to 0.72). There was little evidence of funnel plot asymmetry but substantial heterogeneity of r, which increased 0.05 (95% confidence interval = 0.01 to 0.09) per 10 µg/m increase in mean ambient PM10 concentration. Substituting imputed personal exposure for ambient PM10 concentrations shifted mean percent changes in electrocardiographic measures per 10 µg/m increase in exposure away from the null and decreased their precision, for example, -2.0% (-4.6% to 0.7%) versus -7.9% (-15.9% to 0.9%), for the standard deviation of normal-to-normal RR interval duration.
conclusionsAnalogous distributions and heterogeneity of r in extant meta-analyses of ambient and personal PM2.5 concentrations suggest that observed shifts in mean percent change and decreases in precision may be generalizable across particle size.
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