Effect of Greening Vacant Land on Mental Health of Community-Dwelling Adults A Cluster Randomized Trial
Eugenia C. South, MD, MS; Bernadette C. Hohl, PhD; Michelle C. Kondo, PhD; John M. MacDonald, PhD; Charles C. Branas, PhD.
Continue readingJuly 30 | 2018
Associations between Living Near Water and Risk of Mortality among Urban Canadians.
Crouse DL, Balram A, Hystad P, Pinault L, van den Bosch M, Chen H, Rainham D, Thomson EM, Close CH, van Donkelaar A, Martin RV, Ménard R, Robichaud A, Villeneuve PJ.
Continue readingJuly 23 | 2018
Evaluation of daily time spent in transportation and traffic-influenced microenvironments by urban Canadians.
Matz CJ, Stieb DM, Egyed M, Brion O, Johnson M.
Continue readingJuly 16 | 2018
Environmental Determinants of Insufficient Sleep and Sleep Disorders: Implications for Population Health.
Johnson DA, Billings ME, Hale L.
Curr Epidemiol Rep. 2018 Jun;5(2):61-69. DOI:10.1007/s40471-018-0139-y .
July 9 | 2018
Long-term exposure to air pollution and the incidence of multiple sclerosis: A population-based cohort study.
Bai L, Burnett RT, Kwong JC, Hystad P, van Donkelaar A, Brook JR, Tu K, Copes R, Goldberg MS, Martin RV, Murray BJ, Kopp A, Chen H.
Environ Res. 2018 Jun 22;166:437-443. [Epub ahead of print] DOI:10.1016/j.envres.2018.06.003
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The Association of Long-Term Exposure to Particulate Matter Air Pollution with Brain MRI Findings: The ARIC Study
Melinda C. Power, Archana P. Lamichhane, Duanping Liao, Xiaohui Xu, Clifford R. Jack Jr., Rebecca F. Gottesman, Thomas Mosley, James D. Stewart, Jeff D. Yanosky, and Eric A. Whitsel
Environ Health Perspect; February 2018 Vol 126 Issue 2. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP2152
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Do green neighbourhoods promote urban health justice?
Isabelle Anguelovski, Helen Cole, James Connolly, Margarita Triguero-Mas
The Lancet, Public Health. Vol 3, No. 6, e270 June 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(18)30096-3
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Healthy cities: key to a healthy future in China
William Summerskill, Helena Hui Wang, Richard Horton
The Lancet, Vol 391, No. 10135, p2086–2087, 26 May 2018 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(18)30608-1
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Kernel Density Estimation as a Measure of Environmental Exposure Related to Insulin Resistance in Breast Cancer Survivors
Marta M. Jankowska, Loki Natarajan, Suneeta Godbole, Kristin Meseck, Dorothy D. Sears, Ruth E. Patterson and Jacqueline Kerr
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev; 26(7); 1078–84. Published July 2017
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-16-0927
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Environmental noise pollution and risk of preeclampsia.
Auger N, Duplaix M, Bilodeau-Bertrand M, Lo E, Smargiassi A.
Environ Pollut. 2018 Apr 25;239:599-606. Doi. 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.04.060
Abstract
BACKGROUND:
Environmental noise exposure is associated with a greater risk of hypertension, but the link with preeclampsia, a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy, is unclear.
OBJECTIVES:
We sought to determine the relationship between environmental noise pollution and risk of preeclampsia during pregnancy.
METHODS:
We analyzed a population-based cohort comprising 269,263 deliveries on the island of Montreal, Canada between 2000 and 2013. We obtained total environmental noise pollution measurements (LAeq24, Lden, Lnight) from land use regression models, and assigned noise levels to each woman based on the residential postal code. We computed odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for the association of noise with preeclampsia in mixed logistic regression models with participants as a random effect, and adjusted for air pollution, neighbourhood walkability, maternal age, parity, multiple pregnancy, comorbidity, socioeconomic deprivation, and year of delivery. We assessed whether noise exposure was more strongly associated with severe or early onset preeclampsia than mild or late onset preeclampsia.
RESULTS:
Prevalence of preeclampsia was higher for women exposed to elevated environmental noise pollution levels (LAeq24h ≥ 65 dB(A) = 37.9 per 1000 vs. <50 dB(A) = 27.9 per 1000). Compared with 50 dB(A), an LAeq24h of 65.0 dB(A) was not significantly associated the risk of preeclampsia (OR 1.09, 95% CI 0.99-1.20). Associations were however present with severe (OR 1.29, 95% CI 1.09-1.54) and early onset (OR 1.71, 95% CI 1.20-2.43) preeclampsia, with results consistent across all noise indicators. The associations were much weaker or absent for mild and late preeclampsia.
CONCLUSIONS:
Environmental noise pollution may be a novel risk factor for pregnancy-related hypertension, particularly more severe variants of preeclampsia.