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Ambient Air Pollution: An Emerging Risk Factor for Diabetes Mellitus

  • Pathogenesis of Type 2 Diabetes and Insulin Resistance (RM Watanabe, Section Editor)
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Growing evidence supports that air pollution has become an important risk factor for developing diabetes mellitus. Understanding the contributing effect of air pollution in population studies, elucidating the potential mechanisms involved, and identifying the most responsible pollutants are all required in order to promulgate successful changes in policy and to help formulate preventive measures in an effort to reduce the risk for diabetes. This review summarizes recent findings from epidemiologic studies and mechanistic insights that provide links between exposure to air pollution and a heightened risk for diabetes.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the United States Environmental Protection Agency grant RD83479701 (S. Rajagopalan and R. Brook) and R01ES015146-06, R01ES019616-04, and R01ES017290-05 (S. Rajagopalan). J. Montresor-Lopez’ and R. Puett’s work was partially supported by grant R01ES019168 from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), National Institutes of Health (NIH). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIEHS, NIH. The authors acknowledge Jessica Green-Barnes for her assistance with tables.

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    Xiaoquan Rao & Sanjay Rajagopalan

  2. Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Jessica Montresor-Lopez & Robin Puett

  3. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Robert D. Brook

  4. Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, 24 Frank Lloyd Wright Dr, PO Box 322, Ann Arbor, MI, 48106, USA

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Rao, X., Montresor-Lopez, J., Puett, R. et al. Ambient Air Pollution: An Emerging Risk Factor for Diabetes Mellitus. Curr Diab Rep 15, 33 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11892-015-0603-8

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