It all adds up: non-environmental stressors, cardiovascular dysregulation, and worsened air pollution responses

This presentation describes research that examines the effects of diet, noise and psychosocial stress on subsequent air pollution responses in rodents. It demonstrates the deleterious impacts of accumulating stressors and the increased risk they pose during and after subsequent air pollution exposure. Not only do these combined stressors cause autonomic imbalance and physiological changes indicative of dysfunction, they also cause serious events like arrhythmias.

Impact/Purpose

This presentation will be given at the departmental seminar of the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. It will provide research done at EPA on the effects of air pollution and the impacts of modifying factors that alter the homeostatic function of the body.

Citation

Hazari, M. It all adds up: non-environmental stressors, cardiovascular dysregulation, and worsened air pollution responses. Nicholas School of the Environment - Duke University seminar, Durham, North Carolina, February 06, 2020.