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- Title
Association between ambient and household air pollution with carotid intima-media thickness in peri-urban South India: CHAI-Project.
- Authors
Ranzani, Otavio T; Milà, Carles; Sanchez, Margaux; Bhogadi, Santhi; Kulkarni, Bharati; Balakrishnan, Kalpana; Sambandam, Sankar; Sunyer, Jordi; Marshall, Julian D; Kinra, Sanjay; Tonne, Cathryn
- Abstract
<bold>Background: </bold>Evidence linking ambient air pollution with atherosclerosis is lacking from low- and middle-income countries. Additionally, evidence regarding the association between household air pollution and atherosclerosis is limited. We evaluated the association between ambient fine particulate matter [particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of ≤2.5 µm (PM2.5)] and biomass fuel use on carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), a surrogate of atherosclerosis, in India.<bold>Methods: </bold>We analysed the third follow-up of the Andhra Pradesh Children and Parent Study cohort (2010-2012), which recruited participants from 28 peri-urban villages. Our primary outcome was mean CIMT, measured using a standardized protocol. We estimated annual average PM2.5 outdoors at residence using land-use regression. Biomass cooking fuel was self-reported. We fitted a within-between linear-mixed model adjusting for potential confounders.<bold>Results: </bold>Among 3278 participants (48% women, mean age 38 years), mean PM2.5 was 32.7 [range 24.4-38.2] µg/m3, and 60% used biomass. After confounder adjustment, we observed positive associations between within-village variation in PM2.5 and CIMT in all participants [1.79%, 95% confidence interval (CI), -0.31 to 3.90 per 1 µg/m3 of PM2.5] and in men (2.98%, 95% CI, 0.23-5.72, per 1 µg/m3 of PM2.5). Use of biomass cooking fuel was associated with CIMT in all participants (1.60%, 95% CI, -0.46 to 3.65), especially in women with an unvented stove (6.14%, 95% CI, 1.40-10.89). The point-estimate for the PM2.5 association was larger in sub-groups with higher cardiometabolic risk profile.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>Ambient and household air pollution were positively associated with CIMT in a peri-urban population of India, although with limited precision for some estimates. We observed differences in the association between ambient and household air pollution and CIMT by gender.
- Subjects
INDIA; INDOOR air pollution; CAROTID intima-media thickness; AIR pollutants; AIR pollution; PARTICULATE matter; MIDDLE-income countries; HIV-positive children; CAROTID artery; RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring; SUBURBANITES; CROSS-sectional method; RESEARCH methodology; EVALUATION research; MEDICAL cooperation; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPARATIVE studies; RESIDENTIAL patterns; HOUSING; ENVIRONMENTAL exposure; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2020, Vol 49, Issue 1, p69
- ISSN
0300-5771
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1093/ije/dyz208