Ambient Coarse Particulate Matter and the Right Ventricle: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
Conclusions:
Alterations to RV structure may represent a mechanism by which long-term PM10–2.5 exposure increases risks for adverse respiratory and cardiovascular outcomes, especially among certain susceptible populations. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP658
Received: 14 June 2016
Revised: 24 February 2017
Accepted: 16 March 2017
Published: 27 July 2017
Address correspondence to S. D. Adar, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1415 Washington Heights, SPH II-5539, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA. Telephone: (734) 615-9207; Email: sadar@umich.edu
Supplemental Material is available online (https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP658).
S.M.K. receives nonfinancial support from the American College of Clinical Pharmacology and the American Thoracic Society; personal fees from the European Respiratory Journal; and grants from Actelion, Gilead, GeNO, and Bayer that are unrelated to the submitted work.
All other authors declare they have no actual or potential competing financial interests.
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