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Robert D. Brook
Medicine/Public Health, general
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Cardiovascular health effects of wearing a particulate-filtering respirator to reduce particulate matter exposure: a randomized crossover trial
This randomized crossover trial sought to determine whether wearing a high-efficiency particulate-filtering respirator (PFR) improves cardiovascular function over 48 h among healthy college students in Tehran....
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Clearing the air to treat hypertension
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Environmental determinants of cardiovascular disease: lessons learned from air pollution
Air pollution is well recognized as a major risk factor for chronic non-communicable diseases and has been estimated to contribute more to global morbidity and mortality than all other known environmental risk...
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Coronary artery calcium scoring in patients with hypertension
Coronary artery calcium (CAC) is increased by high blood pressure (BP), predicts new-onset hypertension, and is a powerful predictor of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease events in patients with and withou...
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Open AccessStudy protocol for a stepped-wedge randomized cookstove intervention in rural Honduras: household air pollution and cardiometabolic health
Growing evidence links household air pollution exposure from biomass-burning cookstoves to cardiometabolic disease risk. Few randomized controlled interventions of cookstoves (biomass or otherwise) have quanti...
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Reduction of personal PM2.5 exposure via indoor air filtration systems in Detroit: an intervention study
The adverse health effects of fine particulate matter (PM < 2.5 μm in diameter [PM2.5]) air pollution are well-documented. There is a growing body of evidence that high-efficiency particulate arrestance (HEPA) fi...
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Echoes from Gaea, Poseidon, Hephaestus, and Prometheus: environmental risk factors for high blood pressure
High blood pressure (BP) affects over one billion people and is the leading risk factor for global mortality. While many lifestyle and genetic risk factors are well-accepted to increase BP, the role of the ext...
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The characteristics of coarse particulate matter air pollution associated with alterations in blood pressure and heart rate during controlled exposures
Although fine particulate matter (PM) air pollution <2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5) is a leading cause of global morbidity and mortality, the potential health effects of coarse PM (2.5–10 μm in aerodynami...
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Exploration of the composition and sources of urban fine particulate matter associated with same-day cardiovascular health effects in Dearborn, Michigan
The objective was to explore associations of chemical components and source factors of ambient fine particulate matter (aerodynamic diameter ≤2.5 μm; PM2.5) with cardiovascular (CV) changes following same-day exp...
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Cardiovascular impacts and micro-environmental exposure factors associated with continuous personal PM2.5 monitoring
The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (US EPA) Detroit Exposure and Aerosol Research Study (DEARS) has provided extensive data on human exposures to a wide variety of air pollutants and their impact on huma...
