title: [Prolonged exposure to urban pollutants and arterial blood pressure: a whole evaluation of our researches].
abstract: A significant relationship between exposure to cadmium and PAHs from urban air pollution and blood pressure has already been found. The aim of the study is to evaluate if other urban pollutants maintain a similar relationship in outdoor workers.
  
  
  
  349 subjects of both sexes were enrolled in the study; we evaluated values of environmental and biological monitoring of respirable dust, arsenic, lead, benzene, toluene, xylene and we measured blood pressure (BP) in upright and in supine position; to analyze data we used multiple linear regression. Also we valued our results in the light of those we have obtained in previous research.
  
  
  
  Multiple linear regression showed no significant results that demonstrate a relationship between BP and these pollutants.
  
  
  
  The results of our study lead to assume that exposure to urban pollutants studied has not connection with blood pressure, and to retain valid the relationship previously observed for cadmium and PAHs, which seem to be the only pollutants that can affect blood pressure.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Casale
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Rosati
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Capozzella
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sinibaldi
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suppi
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sacco
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Marrocco
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Scala
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Giubilati
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Di Giorgio
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tomei
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychiatric and Psychological Science, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Tomei
authors.affiliation: Departments of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, University of Rome "Sapienza", Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sancini
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000187:drug effects*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016014:Linear Models; D008297:Male; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*; D014505:Urban Population
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants
keywords: Biological monitoring; Blood pressure; Environmental monitoring; Outdoor workers; Urban pollution