Parallel Session I: Epidemiology
Air Pollution Risk Factors For Disease Onset Appear Shared Across Systemic Vasculitis and Other Autoimmune Diseases
Mr. Enock Havyarimana
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What is particulate matter and how does it impact human health?
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Harnessing data from UK Biobank to understand relationship between systemic vasculitis and air pollution.
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What is the UK Biobank?
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How was systemic vasculitis defined in UK biobank?
How was this linked to environmental exposure?
See below.
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Flow diagram below
Just under 10000 included.
Baseline characteristics - more likely female.
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Sulphur dioxide significantly associated with risk of systemic vasculitis.
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How can we explain this association?
This was the longest running air pollution linkage study.
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In summary.
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