Abstract
Indoor particulate matter (PM) and black carbon (BC) are associated with adverse cardiopulmonary effect. However, the cumulative and interactive effects of the mixture of size-fractioned PMs and BC on cardiopulmonary function are not well understood, and the underlying biological mechanisms remain unclear. This repeated-measure study was conducted to assess the joint cardiopulmonary effect and metabolic mechanisms of multiple-size particles and BC among 46 children. PM0.5, PM1, PM2.5, PM5, PM10 and BC were monitored for 5 weekdays. Cardiorespiratory function measurements and urine samples collection were conducted three times. Untargeted-metabolomics and meet-in-metabolite approach were applied to mechanism investigation. Bayesian machine kernel regression was adopted to analyze associations among PMs, cardiopulmonary function and metabolites. Lung function and heart rate variability significantly decreased with the increased PMs and BC co-exposure (p < 0.05). The effective particles were BC, PM1-2.5 and PM0.5 in turn. No interaction effects of different particles on cardiopulmonary function were observed at different lag days. BC-related glucose and fatty acid increase, and PM1-2.5-related branched-chain amino acid degradation were primarily observed. Other metabolisms were successively disturbed. The greatest joint effects of PMs and BC on metabolism were mainly at lag0 and lag01 day. They occurred earlier than the strongest effects on cardiopulmonary function, which were at lag01 and lag02 day. BC, PM1-2.5 and PM0.5 were mainly associated with cardiorespiratory indices by disturbing amino acids, glucose, lipid, isoflavone and purine metabolism. Mitochondrial productivity and antioxidation reduction are pivotal to the relevant metabolic alterations. More attention should be paid to BC and smaller-size PMs to control indoor PM pollution and its adverse effect on children.
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