{"id":29051,"date":"2012-05-16T12:38:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?post_type=news&#038;p=29051"},"modified":"2012-05-16T12:38:45","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T16:38:45","slug":"changes-in-air-pollution-during-beijing-olympics-tied-to-inflammatory-biomarkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2012\/05\/16\/changes-in-air-pollution-during-beijing-olympics-tied-to-inflammatory-biomarkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Air Pollution During Beijing Olympics Tied to Inflammatory Biomarkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reductions in air pollution during the Beijing Olympics were associated with decreases in certain biomarkers of inflammation and thrombosis in healthy young adults, according to a JAMA study.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers measured levels of air pollutants in 2-week periods before, during, and after the Olympics, and also measured blood levels of cardiovascular disease biomarkers in 125 healthy medical residents during the same three periods.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, air pollutants decreased during the Olympics, reflecting the government&#8217;s measures to limit pollution during the games. At the same time, participants had significant improvements in markers of platelet adhesion and activation &#8212; namely, soluble P selectin and von Willebrand factor. As pollutant levels returned to pre-Olympic levels after the games, so did these biomarkers (soluble P selectin actually was worse after the Olympics than before).<\/p>\n<p>Editorialists say the study &#8220;provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that exposure to higher levels of air pollution leads to a prothrombotic response.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reductions in air pollution during the Beijing Olympics were associated with decreases in certain biomarkers of inflammation and thrombosis in healthy young adults, according to a JAMA study. Researchers measured levels of air pollutants in 2-week periods before, during, and after the Olympics, and also measured blood levels of cardiovascular disease biomarkers in 125 healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[709,686],"class_list":["post-29051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-prevention","tag-air-pollution","tag-biomarkers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}