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Influence of desert dust on the development of premature coronary disease

Alberto Dominguez-Rodriguez
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Néstor Báez-Ferrer
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Pablo Avanzas
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Sergio Rodríguez
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Pedro Abreu-González
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Elisa Trujillo-Martin
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Guillermo Burillo-Putze
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Daniel Hernández-Vaquero
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Version 1 : Received: 18 March 2024 / Approved: 19 March 2024 / Online: 19 March 2024 (05:20:15 CET)

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Domínguez-Rodríguez, A.; Baéz-Ferrer, N.; Avanzas, P.; Rodríguez, S.; Abreu-González, P.; Trujillo-Martin, E.; Burillo-Putze, G.; Hernández-Vaquero, D. The Association of Desert Dust with the Risk of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Subjects of a Younger Age. J. Clin. Med. 2024, 13, 2392. Domínguez-Rodríguez, A.; Baéz-Ferrer, N.; Avanzas, P.; Rodríguez, S.; Abreu-González, P.; Trujillo-Martin, E.; Burillo-Putze, G.; Hernández-Vaquero, D. The Association of Desert Dust with the Risk of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Subjects of a Younger Age. J. Clin. Med. 2024, 13, 2392.

Abstract

Objectives: Recently, desert dust in Europe has been recognized as a cardiovascular health problem. In Spain, desert dust inflows in recent years have been associated with worsening air quality. The present study examines whether desert dust events are related to the incidence of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in patients under 55 years of age. Methods: Data from 2416 consecutive patients admitted to a tertiary hospital due to ACS were prospectively analyzed. A case-crossover time-stratified design using Poisson conditional regression models was applied to estimate the impact of desert dust events involving particulate matter concentrations of aerodynamic diameter < 10 μm (PM10) on the incidence of ACS. Results: Desert dust intrusion on days 0 to 5 after ACS onset showed no significant association with the incidence of ACS in patients under 55 years of age. The incidence rate ratios of PM10 concentrations 1, 2, 3, 3, 4 and 5 days before ACS onset (for changes of 10 µg/m3) were 1.02 (95% CI 0.97-1.1; p = 0.41), 1.01 (95% CI 0.96-1.07; p = 0.66), 0.99 (95% CI 0.94-1.05; p = 0.78), 0.96 (95% CI 0.9-1.02; p = 0.18) and 0.97 (95% CI 0.91-1.04; p = 0.41). Conclusions: Our findings suggest that desert dust is unlikely to be related to the incidence of premature coronary heart disease.

Keywords

Desert dust; acute coronary syndrome; premature coronary heart disease; air pollution

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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