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Acute daily exposure to ambient air pollution impairs endothelium-dependent vasodilator responses in young, healthy individuals.
Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology : An Official Journal of the Polish Physiological Society 2023 August
Exposure to ambient air pollution influences cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality. The differential effects of changing particulate or gaseous air pollution on endothelial function in young healthy individuals remain unclear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationships between exposures to different pollutants and vascular function in a group of 39 young (33±11 years old) subjects with low CV risk. Flow-mediated dilatation (FMD) and nitroglycerin-mediated dilatation (NMD) were performed, when air pollution reached highest levels (heating period) and repeated in a subgroup of 18 participants a few months later (just before the heating period starts). Daily mean concentrations of PM2.5 and PM10 were inversely correlated with FMD, and this relationship remained significant after adjusting for factors known to affect vascular dysfunction. Endothelial function did not differ between the two time points studied. However, we observed a strong inverse association between the change in the concentration of particulate matter (deltaPM2.5 and deltaPM10) and the change in FMD (deltaFMD) between the two visits (R= -0.65, p= 0.02; R= -0.64, p= 0.02, respectively). In summary, we provide evidence that the concentration of PM2.5 and PM10, but not SO2 , NO, NO2 , CO, or O3 is associated with impaired endothelial function in young, healthy individuals.
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