Air pollution and adverse cardiac remodeling: clinical effects and basic mechanisms
Open Access
- 20 May 2015
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Frontiers in Physiology
- Vol. 6, 162
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2015.00162
Abstract
EExposure to air pollution has long been known to trigger cardiovascular events, primarily through activation of local and systemic inflammatory pathways that affect the vasculature. Detrimental effects of air pollution exposure on heart failure and cardiac remodeling have also been described in human populations. Recent studies in both human subjects and animal models have provided insights into the basic physiological, cellular and molecular mechanisms that play a role in adverse cardiac remodeling. This review will give a brief overview of the relationship between air pollution and cardiovascular disease, describe the clinical effects of air pollution exposure on cardiac remodeling, describe the basic mechanisms that affect remodeling as described in human and animal systems and will discuss future areas of investigation.Keywords
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