Markers of Cardiovascular Disease among Adults Exposed to Smoke from the Hazelwood Coal Mine Fire.

ABSTRACT: Little research has examined the effects of high concentration, medium-duration smoke exposure on cardiovascular health. We investigated whether six weeks of exposure to smoke from the 2014 Hazelwood coal mine fire in Victoria (Australia), was associated with long-term clinical or subclinical cardiovascular disease approximately four years later, in adult residents of the towns of Morwell (exposed, n = 336) and Sale (unexposed, n = 162). The primary outcome was serum high sensitivity (hs) C-reactive protein (CRP). Blood pressure, electrocardiogram, flow mediated dilatation and serum levels of hs-troponin, N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide and lipids were secondary outcomes. There was no significant difference in weighted median hsCRP levels between exposed and unexpos

SUBMITTER: Betts J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7914645 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature