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Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors
Published in Mark C Houston, The Truth About Heart Disease, 2023
Any type of environmental pollutant in the water, air, and food, such as pesticides, organocides, particulate matter, or other sources will increase the risk of CHD and MI. These can be measured by specialty labs with blood and urine samples. These are more difficult to treat once found.
Hypertension
Published in Andrew Stevens, James Raftery, Jonathan Mant, Sue Simpson, Health Care Needs Assessment, 2018
Richard J. McManus, Jonathan Mant
Furthermore, mercury is an environmental pollutant that is due to be phased out.63 A number of automated electronic sphygmomanometers now exist which are accurate enough to be recommended for routine use.63 Transferring to electronic blood pressure measurement appears to be associated with a reduction in bias due to rounding but no consistent change in recorded blood pressure.64
Electromagnetic Hygiene
Published in Aruna Bakhru, Nutrition and Integrative Medicine, 2018
As with any environmental pollutant—where health, money, legal issues, and politics come into play—we often have controversy, some of which is scientifically justified due to inadequate information and some of which is based on financial benefits to those who produce the pollutant. To differentiate between scientific controversy and financial controversy is not always obvious and can often be done only by those intimately familiar with the field of study. Most doctors don't have the time for this research; most journalists don't have the scientific credentials for this type of investigative reporting; and most scientists can't be bothered getting involved in the controversy. Policy makers often use disagreements among scientists to delay updating policy, which delays incorporation of scientific information into useful medical procedures and medical education.
Toxicological assessment of electronic cigarette vaping: an emerging threat to force health, readiness and resilience in the U.S. Army
Published in Drug and Chemical Toxicology, 2022
Marc A. Williams, Gunda Reddy, Michael J. Quinn, Amy Millikan Bell
It has been estimated that more than four trillion plastic cellulose acetate cigarette butts are littered annually by those consuming combustible tobacco products (WHO 2017b, Hendlin 2018). This environmental pollution has loaded and stressed sewer and storm water drain systems and polluted open green spaces, parks, and local communities. Further, it has been suggested (though by no means formally demonstrated) that because of their complex material composition of plastics, heavy metals and lithium ion battery, e-cig disposal might potentially pose an even greater environmental pollutant threat than conventional tobacco cigarettes (Hendlin 2018). Placed in context, others have estimated that in 2015, an approximate 58 million e-cigs and e-liquid vaping pods and refill cartridges were purchased in the U.S. This figure did not include sales from vape stores/vape cafes or online purchases over the internet. In addition, more than 19 million of these products and devices were designed as single use, and thus disposable products (Marynak et al.2017).
RNA A-to-I editing, environmental exposure, and human diseases
Published in Critical Reviews in Toxicology, 2021
Here, we presented that exposure of environmental pollutants could alter the expression of RNA A-to-I editing modifying genes that might result in changed RNA A to-I editing landscapes. Although our findings show indirect associations, the results will encourage scientists to investigate the possible changing of RNA editing profiling in animals, cell lines, and human population exposed to environmental pollution. For example, we presented in an in vitro study that several publicly important toxicants could alter the level of RNA m6A (Cayir et al. 2019). Similar studies could be performed to measure RNA editing in response to environmental exposure that would increase the awareness of epitranscriptomics field exposure for toxicology and human health. By investigating such interactions, RNA A-to-I editing can be evaluated as a novel mechanism that mediates between environmental pollutant exposures and adverse health outcomes. In addition, it will enable us to evaluate RNA A-to-I editing as biomarkers of environmental exposure.
Investigating the role of internal layout of magnetic field-generating equipment on workers’ exposure at power substations
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2021
Monireh Hosseini, Laleh Farhang Matin, Mohammad Reza Monazzam, Hossein Khosroabadi
In another study by Gobba et al. [16], the 24-h average exposure of workers to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields at work, home and outside the home were reported as 0.01, 0.03 and 0.05 μT, respectively. As observed, in all of these studies the exposure level of workers does not exceed the standard value recommended by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (1200 μT = 1.2 mT) [17]. Comparing the measurement results of the magnetic flux density and TWA in this study with the standard limit revealed that all values were 5.3% less than the standard value set by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) for occupational exposure. However, given the As low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) principle in the field of radiation protection, it is necessary to reduce as much as possible the amount and time of exposure to this environmental pollutant. According to the ALARA principle, when the duration and amount of exposure to magnetic fields is less, the health of people in their workplace and their daily life will be guaranteed more.