Blood Pressure Rises As A Result Of Long-Term Air Pollution From Road Traffic

Blood Pressure Rises As A Result Of Long-Term Air Pollution From Road Traffic.
Long-term familiarity to the declare pollution particles caused by transport has been linked to an increase in blood pressure, US researchers say. In the callow report, researchers analyzed data from 939 participants in the Normative Aging Study, who were assessed every four years between 1995 and 2006.

A computer mould was used to estimate each participant's danger to traffic air pollution particles during the entire study period and for the year preceding each four-year assessment. Increased leaking to traffic pollution particles was associated with higher blood pressure, especially when the disclosing occurred in the year preceding a four-year assessment (3,02 mm Hg proliferation in systolic blood pressure, 1,96 mm Hg increase in diastolic pressure, and 2,30 mm Hg augmentation in mean arterial pressure), the study authors reported in a account release from the American Heart Association.

This link between long-term exposure to traffic air tainting particles and higher blood pressure readings may help explain the association between traffic polluting and heart attacks and cardiovascular deaths reported in previous studies, study author Joel Schwartz, of Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues eminent in the news release. The findings were to be presented Thursday at the American Heart Association's Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention annual meeting in San Francisco.