Long-Term Exposure to Ambient Fine Particulate Matter and Renal Function in Older Men: The Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study

Conclusions: In this longitudinal sample of older men, the findings supported the hypothesis that long-term PM2.5 exposure negatively affects renal function and increases renal function decline. Citation: Mehta AJ, Zanobetti A, Bind MC, Kloog I, Koutrakis P, Sparrow D, Vokonas PS, Schwartz JD. 2016. Long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter and renal function in older men: the VA Normative Aging Study. Environ Health Perspect 124:1353–1360; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1510269 Address correspondence to A.J. Mehta, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Landmark Center 4th floor, 401 Park Dr., Boston, MA 02215 USA. Telephone: (617) 384-8847. E-mail: amehta@hsph.harvard.edu The authors thank the participants and staff of the VA Normative Aging Study. This work was supported by grants from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health (NIH) (ES014663-01A2) and from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA R832416, R827353, and R83241601). The Veterans Affairs (VA) Normative Aging Study is supported by the Cooperative Studies Program/Epidemiology Research and Information Center of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and is a component of the Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center, Boston, Massachusetts. Support was also provided by NIH grants R01-AG002287, R01-AG018436, and R29-AG007465. This research was also supported by a VA R...
Source: EHP Research - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Research Article September 2016 Source Type: research