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Schilling K, Glabonjat RA, Balac O, Gálvez-Fernández M, Domingo-Relloso A, Slavkovich V, Goldsmith J, Jones MR, Sanchez TR, Navas-Acien A. Method validation for (ultra)-trace element concentrations in urine for small sample volumes in large epidemiological studies: application to the population-based epidemiological multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). ANALYTICAL METHODS : ADVANCING METHODS AND APPLICATIONS 2024; 16:214-226. [PMID: 38099473 PMCID: PMC11068024 DOI: 10.1039/d3ay01605f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2024]
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Analysis of essential and non-essential trace elements in urine has emerged as a valuable tool for assessing occupational and environmental exposures, diagnosing nutritional status and guiding public health and health care intervention. Our study focused on the analysis of trace elements in urine samples from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a precious resource for health research with limited sample volumes. Here we provide a comprehensive and sensitive method for the analysis of 18 elements using only 100 μL of urine. Method sensitivity, accuracy, and precision were assessed. The analysis by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) included the measurement of antimony (Sb), arsenic (As), barium (Ba), cadmium (Cd), cesium (Cs), cobalt (Co), copper (Cu), gadolinium (Gd), lead (Pb), manganese (Mn), molybdenum (Mo), nickel (Ni), selenium (Se), strontium (Sr), thallium (Tl), tungsten (W), uranium (U), and zinc (Zn). Further, we reported urinary trace element concentrations by covariates including gender, ethnicity/race, smoking and location. The results showed good accuracy and sensitivity of the ICP-MS method with the limit of detections rangings between 0.001 μg L-1 for U to 6.2 μg L-1 for Zn. Intra-day precision for MESA urine analysis varied between 1.4% for Mo and 26% for Mn (average 6.4% for all elements). The average inter-day precision for most elements was <8.5% except for Gd (20%), U (16%) and Mn (19%) due to very low urinary concentrations. Urinary mean concentrations of non-essential elements followed the order of Sr > As > Cs > Ni > Ba > Pb > Cd > Gd > Tl > W > U. The order of urinary mean concentrations for essential trace elements was Zn > Se > Mo > Cu > Co > Mn. Non-adjusted mean concentration of non-essential trace elements in urine from MESA participants follow the order Sr > As > Cs > Ni > Ba > Pb > Cd > Gd > Tl > W > U. The unadjusted urinary mean concentrations of essential trace elements decrease from Zn > Se > Mo > Cu > Co > Mn.
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- Kathrin Schilling
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA.
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McGraw KE, Schilling K, Glabonjat RA, Galvez-Fernandez M, Domingo-Relloso A, Martinez-Morata I, Jones MR, Post WS, Kaufman J, Tellez-Plaza M, Valeri L, Brown ER, Kronmal RA, Barr GR, Shea S, Navas-Acien A, Sanchez TR. Urinary Metal Levels and Coronary Artery Calcification: Longitudinal Evidence in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). MEDRXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR HEALTH SCIENCES 2023:2023.10.31.23297878. [PMID: 37961623 PMCID: PMC10635251 DOI: 10.1101/2023.10.31.23297878] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2023]
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Objective Growing evidence indicates that exposure to metals are risk factors for cardiovascular disease (CVD). We hypothesized that higher urinary levels of metals with prior evidence of an association with CVD, including non-essential (cadmium , tungsten, and uranium) and essential (cobalt, copper, and zinc) metals are associated with baseline and rate of change of coronary artery calcium (CAC) progression, a subclinical marker of atherosclerotic CVD. Methods We analyzed data from 6,418 participants in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) with spot urinary metal levels at baseline (2000-2002) and 1-4 repeated measures of spatially weighted coronary calcium score (SWCS) over a ten-year period. SWCS is a unitless measure of CAC highly correlated to the Agatston score but with numerical values assigned to individuals with Agatston score=0. We used linear mixed effect models to assess the association of baseline urinary metal levels with baseline SWCS, annual change in SWCS, and SWCS over ten years of follow-up. Urinary metals (adjusted to μg/g creatinine) and SWCS were log transformed. Models were progressively adjusted for baseline sociodemographic factors, estimated glomerular filtration rate, lifestyle factors, and clinical factors. Results At baseline, the median and interquartile range (25th, 75th) of SWCS was 6.3 (0.7, 58.2). For urinary cadmium, the fully adjusted geometric mean ratio (GMR) (95%Cl) of SWCS comparing the highest to the lowest quartile was 1.51 (1.32, 1.74) at baseline and 1.75 (1.47, 2.07) at ten years of follow-up. For urinary tungsten, uranium, and cobalt the corresponding GMRs at ten years of follow-up were 1.45 (1.23, 1.71), 1.39 (1.17, 1.64), and 1.47 (1.25, 1.74), respectively. For copper and zinc, the association was attenuated with adjustment for clinical risk factors; GMRs at ten years of follow-up before and after adjustment for clinical risk factors were 1.55 (1.30, 1.84) and 1.33 (1.12, 1.58), respectively, for copper and 1.85 (1.56, 2.19) and 1.57 (1.33, 1.85) for zinc. Conclusion Higher levels of cadmium, tungsten, uranium, cobalt, copper, and zinc, as measured in urine, were associated with subclinical CVD at baseline and at follow-up. These findings support the hypothesis that metals are pro-atherogenic factors.
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- Katlyn E. McGraw
- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore MD 21057
- Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 615 N. Wolfe Street. Baltimore MD 212057
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- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Baltimore MD 21057
- Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, 615 N. Wolfe Street. Baltimore MD 212057
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- University of Washington, Department of Medicine
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- National Center for Epidemiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Chronic Diseases Epidemiology
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032
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- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division
- University of Washington, Department of Biostatistics
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology
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- Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032
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- Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032
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Tungsten is an emerging contaminant in the environment. Research has demonstrated that humans are exposed to high levels of tungsten in certain settings, primarily due to increased use of tungsten in industrial applications. However, our understanding of the potential human health risks of tungsten exposure is still limited. An important point we have learned about the toxicity profile of tungsten is that it is complex because tungsten can often augment the effects of other co-exposures or co-stressors, which could result in greater toxicity or more severe disease. This has shaped the tungsten toxicology field and the types of research questions being investigated. This has particularly been true when evaluating the toxicity profile of tungsten metal alloys in combination with cobalt. In this chapter, the current state of the tungsten toxicology field will be discussed focusing on data investigating tungsten carcinogenicity and other major toxicities including pulmonary, cardiometabolic, bone, and immune endpoints, either alone or in combination with other metals. Environmental and human monitoring data will also be discussed to highlight human populations most at risk of exposure to high concentrations of tungsten, the forms of tungsten present in each setting, and exposure levels in each population.
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- Alicia M Bolt
- College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States.
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Grau-Perez M, Voruganti VS, Balakrishnan P, Haack K, Goessler W, Franceschini N, Redón J, Cole SA, Navas-Acien A, Tellez-Plaza M. Genetic variation and urine cadmium levels: ABCC1 effects in the Strong Heart Family Study. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2021; 276:116717. [PMID: 33640655 PMCID: PMC8026674 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2021.116717] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 02/03/2021] [Accepted: 02/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Genetic effects are suspected to influence cadmium internal dose. Our objective was to assess genetic determinants of urine cadmium in American Indian adults participating in the Strong Heart Family Study (SHFS). Urine cadmium levels and genotyped short tandem repeat (STR) markers were available on 1936 SHFS participants. We investigated heritability, including gene-by-sex and smoking interactions, and STR-based quantitative trait locus (QTL) linkage, using a variance-component decomposition approach, which incorporates the genetic information contained in the pedigrees. We also used available single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from Illumina's Metabochip and custom panel to assess whether promising QTLs associated regions could be attributed to SNPs annotated to specific genes. Median urine cadmium levels were 0.44 μg/g creatinine. The heritability of urine cadmium concentrations was 28%, with no evidence of gene-by-sex or -smoking interaction. We found strong statistical evidence for a genetic locus at chromosome 16 determining urine cadmium concentrations (Logarithm of odds score [LOD] = 3.8). Among the top 20 associated SNPs in this locus, 17 were annotated to ABCC1 (p-values from 0.0002 to 0.02), and attenuated the maximum linkage peak by a ∼40%. Suggestive QTL signals (LOD>1.9) in chromosomes 2, 6, 11, 14, and 19, showed associated SNPs in the genes NDUFA10, PDE10A, PLEKHA7, BAZ1A and CHAF1A, respectively. Our findings support that urinary cadmium levels are heritable and influenced by a QTL on chromosome 16, which was explained by genetic variation in ABCC1. Studies with extended sets of genome-wide markers are needed to confirm these findings and to identify additional metabolism and toxicity pathways for cadmium.
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- Maria Grau-Perez
- Area of Cardiometabolic and Renal Risk, Institute for Biomedical Research Hospital Clinic of Valencia (INCLIVA), Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and Microbiology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Department of Statistics and Operational Research, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain.
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- Department of Nutrition and Nutrition Research Institute, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Population Health Program, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Institute of Chemistry - Analytical Chemistry, Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Area of Cardiometabolic and Renal Risk, Institute for Biomedical Research Hospital Clinic of Valencia (INCLIVA), Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clinic of Valencia, University of Valencia, Valencia, Valencia, Spain
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- Population Health Program, Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
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- Area of Cardiometabolic and Renal Risk, Institute for Biomedical Research Hospital Clinic of Valencia (INCLIVA), Valencia, Valencia, Spain; Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health and Microbiology, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Department of Chronic Diseases Epidemiology, National Center for Epidemiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Wang T, Wang Y, Xu M, Wang Z, Wu N, Qi F, Song J, Dai Y, Wang H, Sun X, Gao S, Wang W, Li Y, Chen R, Sun Z, Jia Q, Li X, Duan H, Liu Z. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in particulate matter and serum club cell secretory protein change among schoolchildren: A molecular epidemiology study. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2021; 192:110300. [PMID: 33038368 DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2020.110300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2020] [Revised: 09/30/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Airborne particulate matter (PM) is a complex mixture containing various kinds of harmful components. Exposure to air PM is associated with childhood respiratory disease, but epidemiological data are limited concerning the circulating respiratory injury protein on the etiology of childhood respiratory disease. Specifically, the role of PM toxic components or its biological effective dose (adduct) in respiratory injury remains unclear. To demonstrate the dose-response relationship and the main mechanism on circulating club cell secretory protein (CC16) from PM compositions among children, we enrolled 273 boarding schoolchildren in China, including 110 and 163 children of whom were in the low- and high-PM exposed areas, respectively. In this study, we measured the internal exposure levels, including serum polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) adduct, urinary metals, and AhR expression, and detected the serum CC16 level as a lung injury marker. Environmental tobacco exposure in children was assessed by urinary cotinine. We found that significantly higher levels of serum CC16, benzo[a]pyridin-7,8-dihydroglycol-9,10-epoxide (BPDE)-albumin adduct, urinary molybdenum, selenium, arsenic, cadmium and barium, and lower level of AhR expression in high-PM exposed group. There was a good association between serum BPDE-albumin adduct and CC16 (β = 0.222, P = 0.006). There was no association on urinary metals and serum CC16. BPDE-albumin adduct was directly associated with serum CC16 alternation [direct effect = 0.2044, 95% confidence interval (CI) = (0.0426, 0.36)]. PM could cause serum CC16 increased in children. PAH and its adduct might play a key role in lung injury during PM exposure.
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- Ting Wang
- Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China
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- Inner Mongolia Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hohhot, China
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- Inner Mongolia Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Hohhot, China
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- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- School of Public Health, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China
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- Shandong Academy of Occupational Health and Occupational Medicine, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China
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- Jinan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, China
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- Key Laboratory of Chemical Safety and Health, National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
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- Jinan Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Jinan, China.
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- Zhushan Fu
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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Pérez Díaz MFF, Plateo Pignatari MG, Filippa VP, Mohamed FH, Marchevsky EJ, Gimenez MS, Ramirez DC. A soybean-based diet modulates cadmium-induced vascular apoptosis. J Trace Elem Med Biol 2019; 52:239-246. [PMID: 30732889 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtemb.2019.01.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Revised: 12/21/2018] [Accepted: 01/11/2019] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Cadmium (Cd) exposure has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases. The diet is a modifiable source of protecting or damaging factors that may affect this risk. Herein we tested the hypothesis that a soybean-based diet (SBD) protects the vascular wall of the aorta against Cd-induced pro-inflammatory and pro-apoptotic effects. To test this hypothesis, we fed male Wistar rats for 60 days with a casein-based diet (CBD) or an SBD. These animals were also exposed to tap-water without (CBD-Co/SBD-Co) or with 15(CBD-15Cd/SBD-15Cd) or 100 (CBD-100Cd/SBD-100Cd) ppm of Cd. Inflammatory parameters (mRNAs and/or proteins) were measured in thoracic aorta tissue. These included inducible and endothelial nitric oxide synthases, cyclooxygenase-2, intracellular-adhesion molecule-1, and vascular cell-adhesion molecule-1. As pro-apoptotic parameters, we measured Bax and Bcl-2 mRNA/protein, as well as TUNEL positive cells in the aorta tissue. Compared to CBD-Co, inflammatory and apoptosis markers increased in the aorta with the concentration of Cd in the drinking water. These effects were not observed in either SBD-15Cd or SBD-100Cd, which were similar to CBD-Co. Cd content in serum and in aortas from animals fed CBD-Co/SBD-15Cd or CBD-Co/SBD-100Cd were similar suggesting that, if any, the effect of SBD is not due to changes in Cd bioaccumulation, but due to secondary effects linked to the composition of the dietary soybean flour. Our findings are consistent with a protective effect of an SBD against Cd-induced inflammation and apoptosis in the thoracic aorta in a rat model.
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- Matías F F Pérez Díaz
- Laboratory of Nutrition, Environment, and Metabolism, Multidisciplinary Institute of Biological Research-San Luis, CCT-San Luis, CONICET-National University of San Luis, San Luis, 5700 San Luis, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Nutrition, Environment, and Metabolism, Multidisciplinary Institute of Biological Research-San Luis, CCT-San Luis, CONICET-National University of San Luis, San Luis, 5700 San Luis, Argentina; Laboratory of Experimental and Translational Medicine, Multidisciplinary Institute of Biological Research-San Luis, CCT-San Luis, CONICET-National University of San Luis, San Luis, 5700 San Luis, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Histology, Multidisciplinary Institute of Biological Research-San Luis, CCT-San Luis, CONICET-National University of San Luis, San Luis, 5700 San Luis, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Histology, Multidisciplinary Institute of Biological Research-San Luis, CCT-San Luis, CONICET-National University of San Luis, San Luis, 5700 San Luis, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, School of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Pharmacy, National University of San Luis, San Luis, 5700 San Luis, Argentina
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- Laboratory of Nutrition, Environment, and Metabolism, Multidisciplinary Institute of Biological Research-San Luis, CCT-San Luis, CONICET-National University of San Luis, San Luis, 5700 San Luis, Argentina.
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- Laboratory of Experimental and Translational Medicine, Multidisciplinary Institute of Biological Research-San Luis, CCT-San Luis, CONICET-National University of San Luis, San Luis, 5700 San Luis, Argentina.
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Tungsten is an emerging environmental toxicant, yet our understanding of the potential risks of exposure on human health is still limited. RECENT FINDINGS In this review, we will discuss populations most at risk of exposure to high concentrations of tungsten. In addition, we will highlight what is known about the toxicity profile of tungsten compounds, based on epidemiological, in vitro, and in vivo studies, focusing on bone, immune, pulmonary, and cancer outcomes. Of note, emerging evidence indicates that tungsten can augment the effects of other stimulants, stressors, and toxicants. Of particular importance may be tungsten-cobalt mixtures that seem to be more toxic than either metal alone. This is important because it means that we cannot just evaluate the toxicity of tungsten in isolation. Finally, we still have limited information of how many of the in vitro and in vivo findings translate to human populations, so it will be important to conduct epidemiology studies in highly exposed populations to adequately address the potential risks of tungsten exposure on human health. Together, we discuss recent findings that support further investigation into the toxicities of tungsten alone and in combination with other metals.
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Nigra AE, Ruiz-Hernandez A, Redon J, Navas-Acien A, Tellez-Plaza M. Environmental Metals and Cardiovascular Disease in Adults: A Systematic Review Beyond Lead and Cadmium. Curr Environ Health Rep 2018; 3:416-433. [PMID: 27783356 DOI: 10.1007/s40572-016-0117-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Published systematic reviews concluded that there is moderate to strong evidence to infer a potential role of lead and cadmium, widespread environmental metals, as cardiovascular risk factors. For other non-essential metals, the evidence has not been appraised systematically. Our objective was to systematically review epidemiologic studies on the association between cardiovascular disease in adults and the environmental metals antimony, barium, chromium, nickel, tungsten, uranium, and vanadium. We identified a total of 4 articles on antimony, 1 on barium, 5 on chromium, 1 on nickel, 4 on tungsten, 1 on uranium, and 0 on vanadium. We concluded that the current evidence is not sufficient to inform on the cardiovascular role of these metals because of the small number of studies. Few experimental studies have also evaluated the role of these metals in cardiovascular outcomes. Additional epidemiologic and experimental studies, including prospective cohort studies, are needed to understand the role of metals, including exposure to metal mixtures, in cardiovascular disease development.
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- Anne E Nigra
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.,Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W 168th St, 11 Floor Rm 1105, New York, NY, 10032, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clínico de Valencia, Avenida Blasco Ibañez, 17, 46010, Valencia, Spain.,Area of Cardiometabolic and Renal Risk, Institute for Biomedical Research Hospital Clinical of Valencia (INCLIVA), Av. Menendez Pelayo, 4 accesorio, 6010, Valencia, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Clínico de Valencia, Avenida Blasco Ibañez, 17, 46010, Valencia, Spain.,Area of Cardiometabolic and Renal Risk, Institute for Biomedical Research Hospital Clinical of Valencia (INCLIVA), Av. Menendez Pelayo, 4 accesorio, 6010, Valencia, Spain.,CIBER Physiopathology of Obesity and Nutrition (CIBEROBN), Institute of Health Carlos III, Minister of Health, Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.,Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.,Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W 168th St, 11 Floor Rm 1105, New York, NY, 10032, USA.,Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. .,Area of Cardiometabolic and Renal Risk, Institute for Biomedical Research Hospital Clinical of Valencia (INCLIVA), Av. Menendez Pelayo, 4 accesorio, 6010, Valencia, Spain.
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Mensah GA. Charting the Future for Ethnicity and Health Research: Clinical and Population Science Insights From the MESA. Glob Heart 2018; 11:365-367. [PMID: 27741983 DOI: 10.1016/j.gheart.2016.09.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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The MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis) has been highly successful in investigating the prevalence, characteristics, and progression of subclinical cardiovascular disease (CVD) in a multiethnic American cohort of adult men and women free of CVD at baseline. MESA has also championed the use of novel biomarkers and emerging imaging techniques for the assessment of subclinical CVD and has created an extensive set of data that continues to fuel dozens of ongoing analyses. Insights from MESA include the first demonstration of ethnic differences in coronary artery calcification and its association with subclinical disease progression and incident CVD. Other findings include ethnic differences in the prevalence of pharmacological, behavioral, and lifestyle interventions for the primary prevention of CVD. MESA has also shown the association between residential neighborhood characteristics and behavioral and biomedical risk factors for CVD. This vast amount of data documenting ethnic differences in progression of subclinical CVD, diabetes, kidney disease, and pulmonary disease contrasts sharply with the relative scarcity of specific information that can pave the way for the elimination of racial and ethnic disparities. Intervention research, however, goes beyond the original objectives of MESA and other observational studies. The time has now come to build on the legacy of MESA by supporting rigorous intervention research that informs clinical and public health strategies as well as policy and environmental changes for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in CVD and other chronic diseases and advancing the health of multiethnic communities.
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- George A Mensah
- Center for Translation Research and Implementation Science, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
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Kaufman JD, Spalt EW, Curl CL, Hajat A, Jones MR, Kim SY, Vedal S, Szpiro AA, Gassett A, Sheppard L, Daviglus ML, Adar SD. Advances in Understanding Air Pollution and CVD. Glob Heart 2016; 11:343-352. [PMID: 27741981 PMCID: PMC5082281 DOI: 10.1016/j.gheart.2016.07.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/23/2016] [Revised: 07/13/2016] [Accepted: 07/21/2016] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The MESA Air (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis and Air Pollution) leveraged the platform of the MESA cohort into a prospective longitudinal study of relationships between air pollution and cardiovascular health. MESA Air researchers developed fine-scale, state-of-the-art air pollution exposure models for the MESA Air communities, creating individual exposure estimates for each participant. These models combine cohort-specific exposure monitoring, existing monitoring systems, and an extensive database of geographic and meteorological information. Together with extensive phenotyping in MESA-and adding participants and health measurements to the cohort-MESA Air investigated environmental exposures on a wide range of outcomes. Advances by the MESA Air team included not only a new approach to exposure modeling, but also biostatistical advances in addressing exposure measurement error and temporal confounding. The MESA Air study advanced our understanding of the impact of air pollutants on cardiovascular disease and provided a research platform for advances in environmental epidemiology.
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Affiliation(s)
- Joel D Kaufman
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Community and Environmental Health, College of Health Sciences, Boise State University, Boise, ID, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Amanda Gassett
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Lianne Sheppard
- Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
| | - Martha L Daviglus
- Institute for Minority Health Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA
| | - Sara D Adar
- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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