SynthesisInternational journal of environmental research and public health2016
Short-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Cardiac Arrhythmia: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.
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- Short-term exposure to nitrogen dioxide and mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Environmental research · 2021Pooled it
- Environmental Risk Factors and Health: An Umbrella Review of Meta-Analyses.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Acute effect of ambient fine particulate matter on heart rate variability: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of panel studies.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2020Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of case-crossover and time-series studies of short term outdoor nitrogen dioxide exposure and ischemic heart disease morbidity.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2020Pooled it
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Association between Ambient Nitrogen Dioxide and Respiratory Disease in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Pooled it
- Association between ambient air pollution and daily non-accidental mortality: evidence from the coastal city of Shantou, China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Ozone exposure and cardiovascular disease: A narrative review of epidemiology evidence and underlying mechanisms.Fundamental research · 2025Review
- Effect of PM2.5 on burden of mortality from non-communicable diseases in northern Thailand.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Two-sample mendelian randomization analysis investigates ambient fine particulate matter's impact on cardiovascular disease development.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Adverse effects of air pollution-derived fine particulate matter on cardiovascular homeostasis and disease.Trends in cardiovascular medicine · 2022Review
- The Impact of Fine Particulate Matter 2.5 on the Cardiovascular System: A Review of the Invisible Killer.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Impacts of Environmental Insults on Cardiovascular Aging.Current environmental health reports · 2022Review
- An Integration Method for Regional PMInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Air pollution and cardiovascular disease: Can the Australian bushfires and global COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 convince us to change our ways?BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2021Review
- Acute Exposure to Diesel Exhaust Increases Muscle Sympathetic Nerve Activity in Humans.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2021Article
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Abstract
The objective was to assess the transient association between air pollution and cardiac arrhythmia. Five databases were searched for studies investigating the association between daily increases in air pollutants (PM2.5, PM10, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide and ozone) and arrhythmia hospitalization or arrhythmia mortality. Two reviewers independently selected studies, extracted data, and assessed risk of bias. Outcomes were analyzed via a random-effects model and reported as relative risk and 95% confidence interval. 25 studies satisfied our inclusion criteria and 23 contributed to the meta-analysis. Arrhythmia hospitalization or mortality were associated with increases in PM2.5 (RR = 1.015 per 10 μg/m³, 95% CI: 1.006-1.024), PM10 (RR = 1.009 per 10 μg/m³, 95% CI: 1.004-1.014), carbon monoxide (RR = 1.041 per 1 ppm, 95% CI: 1.017-1.065), nitrogen dioxide (RR = 1.036 per 10 ppb, 95% CI: 1.020-1.053), and sulfur dioxide (RR = 1.021 per 10 ppb, 95% CI: 1.003-1.039), but not ozone (RR = 1.012 per 10 ppb, 95% CI: 0.997-1.027). Both particulate and gaseous components, with the exception of ozone, have a temporal association with arrhythmia hospitalization or mortality. Compared with Europe and North America, a stronger association was noted in Asia.
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