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Islami F, Boffetta P, van Schooten FJ, Strickland P, Phillips DH, Pourshams A, Fazel-Tabar Malekshah A, Godschalk R, Jafari E, Etemadi A, Abubaker S, Kamangar F, Straif K, Møller H, Schüz J, Malekzadeh R. Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Among Never Smokers in Golestan Province, Iran, an Area of High Incidence of Esophageal Cancer - a Cross-Sectional Study with Repeated Measurement of Urinary 1-OHPG in Two Seasons. Front Oncol 2012; 2:14. [PMID: 22655262 PMCID: PMC3356003 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2012.00014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2011] [Accepted: 01/29/2012] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Studies have suggested a possible role of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the etiology of esophageal cancer in Golestan Province, Iran, where incidence of this cancer is very high. In order to investigate the patterns of non-smoking related exposure to PAHs in Golestan, we conducted a cross-sectional study collecting questionnaire data, genotyping polymorphisms related to PAH metabolism, and measuring levels of 1-hydroxypyrene glucuronide (1-OHPG), a PAH metabolite, in urine samples collected in two seasons from the same group of 111 randomly selected never-smoking women. Beta-coefficients for correlations between 1-OHPG as dependent variable and other variables were calculated using linear regression models. The creatinine-adjusted 1-OHPG levels in both winter and summer samples were approximately 110 μmol/molCr (P for seasonal difference = 0.40). In winter, red meat intake (β = 0.208; P = 0.03), processed meat intake (β = 0.218; P = 0.02), and GSTT1-02 polymorphism ("null" genotype: β = 0.228; P = 0.02) showed associations with 1-OHPG levels, while CYP1B1-07 polymorphism (GG versus AA + GA genotypes: β = -0.256; P = 0.008) showed an inverse association. In summer, making bread at home (> weekly versus never: β = 0.203; P = 0.04), second-hand smoke (exposure to ≥3 cigarettes versus no exposure: β = 0.254; P = 0.01), and GSTM1-02 "null" genotype (β = 0.198; P = 0.04) showed associations with 1-OHPG levels, but GSTP1-02 polymorphism (CT + TT versus CC: β = -0.218; P = 0.03) showed an inverse association. This study confirms high exposure of the general population in Golestan to PAHs and suggests that certain foods, cooking methods, and genetic polymorphisms increase exposure to PAHs.
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- Farhad Islami
- International Agency for Research on CancerLyon, France
- Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical SciencesTehran, Iran
- King’s College London, Thames Cancer RegistryLondon, UK
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- International Prevention Research InstituteLyon, France
- The Tisch Cancer Institute and Institute for Transitional Epidemiology, Mount Sinai School of MedicineNew York, NY, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD, USA
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- Section of Molecular Carcinogenesis, Institute of Cancer ResearchSutton, UK
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- Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical SciencesTehran, Iran
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- Department of Toxicology, NUTRIM, Maastricht UniversityMaastricht, Netherlands
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- Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical SciencesTehran, Iran
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- Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical SciencesTehran, Iran
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of HealthBethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD, USA
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of HealthBethesda, MD, USA
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- International Agency for Research on CancerLyon, France
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- King’s College London, Thames Cancer RegistryLondon, UK
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- International Agency for Research on CancerLyon, France
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- Digestive Disease Research Center, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical SciencesTehran, Iran
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Suwan-ampai P, Navas-Acien A, Strickland PT, Agnew J. Involuntary tobacco smoke exposure and urinary levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the United States, 1999 to 2002. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009; 18:884-93. [PMID: 19258471 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-08-0939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Evidence supports active smoking as a major source of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), compounds that are mutagenic and carcinogenic in humans. The influence of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke on PAH exposure levels among nonsmokers, however, is unknown. This study evaluated the association between both active and involuntary tobacco smoke and biomarkers of PAH exposure in the general U.S. population. A cross-sectional analysis of 5,060 participants>or=6 years of age was done using data from the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). PAH exposure was measured by urinary concentrations of 23 monohydroxylated metabolites of nine PAH compounds. Tobacco smoke exposure was defined as no exposure, involuntary exposure, and active exposure by combining serum cotinine levels, smoking status, and presence of household smokers. PAH metabolite levels ranged from 33.9 ng/L for 9-hydroxyphenanthrene to 2,465.4 ng/L for 2-hydroxynaphthalene. After adjustment for age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, household income, and broiled/grilled food consumption, participants involuntarily and actively exposed to tobacco smoke had urinary metabolite concentrations that were increased by a factor of 1.1 to 1.4 and 1.5 to 6.9, respectively, compared with unexposed participants. Associations for involuntary smoking were stronger and statistically significant for 1-hydroxypyrene, 2-hydroxyfluorene, 3-hydroxyfluorene, 9-hydroxyfluorene, 1-hydroxyphenanthrene, 2-hydroxyphenanthrene, and 3-hydroxyphenanthrene compared with other metabolites. Involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke was associated with elevated urinary concentrations of most PAH metabolites in a representative sample of the U.S. population. Policy and educational efforts must continue to minimize PAH exposure through active and involuntary tobacco smoke exposure.
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- Plernpit Suwan-ampai
- Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, 615 North Wolfe Street, Room W7503, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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Lee MS, Eum KD, Lee K, Kim H, Paek D. Seasonal and regional contributors of 1-hydroxypyrene among children near a steel mill. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009; 18:96-101. [PMID: 19124486 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.epi-08-0612] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Urinary 1-hydroxypyrene (1-OHP) is a biomarker of exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Effect of residence on children's PAH exposure was reported among children living near a polluted area. Instead of a snapshot assessment, however, a temporal history of exposure characteristics needs to be assessed in the studies of chronic disease development such as cancer. The urinary 1-OHP measurements were repeated to determine regional effect of ambient air pollution on 1-OHP levels over extended periods. Two sites were chosen: (a) one site located near the steel mill ("nearby" site) and (b) the other site located at a longer distance from the mill ("remote" site). Spot urinary 1-OHP levels were measured from 72 children for 3 consecutive days per month, repeated over 9-month period. Compared with remote site, the nearby site had increased the urinary 1-OHP level by 62.3% [95% confidence interval (95% CI), 39.8-88.3%]. Other statistically significant factors that contributed to the level include sex [16.5% (95% CI, 1.2-34.1%) higher for girls than boys], consumption of charbroiled meat [16.5% (95% CI, 1.1-34.2%) higher], and an increase in PM(10) [10.1% (95% CI, 4.8-15.7%) higher for the interquartile range increment]. Controlling for covariates, the 1-OHP levels were increased in the summer and fall compared with winter. The magnitude of the effects of both seasons had diminished after adjusting for PM(10). This is the first report providing seasonal and regional contributors to environmental PAH exposure, assessed by urinary 1-OHP, with higher 1-OHP levels during summer when ambient pollution was also high.
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- Mi-Sun Lee
- Department of Environmental Health, Graduate School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Environment, Seoul National University, 28 Yeongeon-Dong, Jongno-Gu, Seoul 110-460, Republic of Korea
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Chaouachi K. Hookah (Shisha, Narghile) Smoking and Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS). A critical review of the relevant literature and the public health consequences. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH 2009; 6:798-843. [PMID: 19440416 PMCID: PMC2672364 DOI: 10.3390/ijerph6020798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2009] [Accepted: 02/11/2009] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Hookah (narghile, shisha, "water-pipe") smoking is now seen by public health officials as a global tobacco epidemic. Cigarette Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) is classically understood as a combination of Side-Stream Smoke (SSS) and Exhaled Main-Stream Smoke (EMSS), both diluted and aged. Some of the corresponding cigarette studies have served as the scientific basis for stringent legislation on indoor smoking across the world. Interestingly, one of the distinctive traits of the hookah device is that it generates almost no SSS. Indeed, its ETS is made up almost exclusively by the smoke exhaled by the smoker (EMSS), i.e. which has been filtered by the hookah at the level of the bowl, inside the water, along the hose and then by the smoker's respiratory tract itself. The present paper reviews the sparse and scattered scientific evidence available about hookah EMSS and the corresponding inferences that can be drawn from the composition of cigarette EMSS. The reviewed literature shows that most of hookah ETS is made up of EMSS and that the latter qualitatively differs from MSS. Keeping in mind that the first victim of passive smoking is the active smoker her/himself, the toxicity of hookah ETS for non-smokers should not be overestimated and hyped in an unscientific way.
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Myers SR, Zamora R, Ali Y, Cunningham CR, Wright T, Weeks J. ANALYSIS OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS IN AMNIOTIC FLUID SAMPLES FROM SMOKERS AND NONSMOKERS. Polycycl Aromat Compd 2008. [DOI: 10.1080/10406630701779434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Scherer G. Carboxyhemoglobin and thiocyanate as biomarkers of exposure to carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide in tobacco smoke. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 58:101-24. [PMID: 16973339 DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2006.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2006] [Accepted: 07/26/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The determination of biomarkers in human body fluids is a useful tool, which allows the quantitative assessment of the exposure to chemicals or complex mixtures of chemicals and of early biological effects as a result of the exposure. Biomarkers require validation before their successful application in human studies. This review describes some general purposes of human biomonitoring and biomarkers including the requirements for validation. Risk assessment and harm reduction of smoking and tobacco products, respectively, is a very suitable field for the application of biomarkers. A brief historical review shows that the application of biomarkers of exposure and effect in human smoking goes back more than 150 years. Two 'classical' biomarkers of exposure to tobacco, namely carboxyhemoglobin (COHb and its equivalent carbon monoxide in exhalate, COex) and thiocyanate (SCN) in body fluids are discussed in terms of sources of exposure, metabolism, disposition kinetics and influencing host factors. Data on COHb/COex and SCN in nonsmokers and smokers as well as the power to discriminate between smokers and nonsmokers are presented. Both biomarkers are significantly correlated with the daily cigarette consumption. Smoking machine-derived yields of the precursors carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide were not correlated with COHb/COex and SCN, respectively. It is concluded that, while COHb/COex is a useful biomarker for assessing the smoke inhalation, preferably in controlled studies, the application of SCN in body fluids as a biomarker for smoking is limited, mainly due to the abundance of other sources for SCN.
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- Gerhard Scherer
- ABF Analytisch-biologisches Forschungslabor GmbH, Goethestrasse 20, 80336 München, Germany.
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Relationship between machine-derived smoke yields and biomarkers in cigarette smokers in Germany. Regul Toxicol Pharmacol 2006; 47:171-83. [PMID: 17034917 DOI: 10.1016/j.yrtph.2006.09.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2006] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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In order to determine whether smokers of cigarettes in the contemporary yield ranges of the German market (0.1-1.0mg nicotine, 1-10mg tar) differ in their actual exposure to various smoke constituents, we performed a field study with 274 smokers and 100 non-smokers. The following biomarkers were determined: In 24-h urine: Nicotine equivalents (molar sum of nicotine, cotinine, trans-3'-hydroxycotinine and their respective glucuronides), 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol (NNAL, metabolite of the tobacco-specific nitrosamine 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone, NNK), 3-hydroxypropylmercapturic acid (metabolite of acrolein), trans,trans-muconic acid, S-phenylmercapturic acid (metabolites of benzene), 1-hydroxypyrene (metabolite of pyrene); in saliva: Cotinine and trans-3'-hydroxycotinine; in exhaled air: Carbon monoxide; in blood: Methyl-, hydroxyethyl-, cyanoethyl- (biomarker of acrylonitrile) and carbamoylethylvaline (biomarker of acrylamide) hemoglobin adducts. All biomarkers were found to be significantly higher in smokers compared to non-smokers and showed strong correlations with the daily cigarette consumption. Biomarker levels and per cigarette increases in smokers were at most weakly related to the machine-derived smoke yields. It is concluded that machine-derived yields of cigarettes from the contemporary German cigarette market have little or no impact on the actual smoking-related exposure determined by suitable biomarkers.
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Scherer G. Biomonitoring of inhaled complex mixtures--ambient air, diesel exhaust and cigarette smoke. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 57 Suppl 1:75-110. [PMID: 16092718 DOI: 10.1016/j.etp.2005.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Human biomonitoring comprises the determination of biomarkers in body-fluids, cells and tissues. Biomarkers are generally assigned to one of three classes, namely, biomarkers of exposure, effect or susceptibility. Since biomarkers represent steps in an exposure-disease continuum, their application in epidemiological studies ('molecular epidemiology') shows promise. However, to be a predictor of disease, a biomarker has to be validated. Validation criteria for a biomarker include intrinsic qualities such as specificity, sensitivity, knowledge of background in the population, existence of dose-response relationships, degree of inter- and intra-individual variability, knowledge of the kinetics, confounding and modifying factors. In addition, properties of the sampling and analytical procedures are of relevance, including constraints and non-invasiveness of sampling, stability of sample as well as simplicity, high sensitivity, specificity and speed of the analytical method. It is of particular importance to prove by suitable studies that the biomarker of exposure indicates the actual exposure, the biomarker of effect strongly predicts the actual risk of disease and the biomarker of susceptibility actually modifies the risk. Biomonitoring of the exposure to complex mixtures such as polluted ambient air, diesel exhaust or tobacco smoke is a particular challenge since these exposures have many constituents in common and many people were exposed to more than one of these mixtures. Data on the exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and benzene from ambient air, diesel exhaust and tobacco smoke will be presented. In addition, some source-specific biomarkers such as nitro-arenes and nicotine metabolites as well as their application in population groups will be discussed. The second part of the presentation addresses the application of biomarkers for assessing so called 'potentially reduced exposure products' (PREPs). According to a recent report of the Institute of Medicine (USA), "reducing risk of disease by reducing exposure to tobacco toxicants is feasible" and "surrogate biological markers that are associated with tobacco-related diseases could be used to offer guidance as to whether or not PREPs are likely to be risk-reducing." In general, the same validation criteria apply as discussed above. In addition, it is suggested that a panel of biomarkers should be used, representing both smoke phases (gas and particulate phase) and the various chemical classes of smoke constituents (e.g., carbonyls, benzene, PAH, tobacco-specific nitrosamines, aromatic amines). Also, a panel of biomarkers of effect should cover the major known adverse effects of smoking (e.g., oxidative stress, inflammatory processes, lipid peroxidation, lipometabolic disorders, mutagenic effects). Biomarkers of nicotine and carbon monoxide uptake are of interest for evaluating the smoking and inhalation behavior, respectively. Finally, suitable study designs for evaluating PREPs are discussed. It is concluded that suitable biomarkers for assessing the exposure to complex mixtures such as ambient air, diesel exhaust and tobacco smoke as well as for evaluating the exposure-reducing properties of PREPs are already available. Future efforts should focus on the development and validation of biomarkers of effect.
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- Gerhard Scherer
- ABF Analytisch-Biologisches Forschungslabor GmbH, Goethestr. 20, 80336 Muenchen, Germany.
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Hecht SS. Carcinogen derived biomarkers: applications in studies of human exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. Tob Control 2004; 13 Suppl 1:i48-56. [PMID: 14985617 PMCID: PMC1766147 DOI: 10.1136/tc.2002.002816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To review the literature on carcinogen derived biomarkers of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS). These biomarkers are specifically related to known carcinogens in tobacco smoke and include urinary metabolites, DNA adducts, and blood protein adducts. METHOD Published reviews and the current literature were searched for relevant articles. RESULTS The most consistently elevated biomarker in people exposed to SHS was 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol (NNAL) and its glucuronides (NNAL-Gluc), urinary metabolites of the tobacco specific lung carcinogen 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK). The tobacco specificity of this biomarker as well as its clear relation to an established lung carcinogen are particularly appropriate for its application in studies of SHS exposure. CONCLUSION The results of the available carcinogen derived biomarker studies provide biochemical data which support the conclusion, based on epidemiologic investigations, that SHS causes lung cancer in non-smokers.
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- S S Hecht
- University of Minnesota Cancer Center, Mayo Mail Code 806, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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Villeneuve PJ, Johnson KC, Mao Y, Hanley AJ. Environmental tobacco smoke and the risk of pancreatic cancer: findings from a Canadian population-based case-control study. Canadian Journal of Public Health 2004. [PMID: 14768739 DOI: 10.1007/bf03403631] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Despite the fact that tobacco is a well-recognized risk factor for pancreatic cancer, no study has yet reported on the association between environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and this malignancy. We investigated the relationship between pancreatic cancer and childhood and adult exposure to ETS using a case-control study design. METHODS Our study population consisted of 583 pancreatic cancer cases and 4,813 population-based controls that were identified within 8 Canadian provinces between 1994 and 1997. Mail-out questionnaires were used to collect risk factor information and a lifetime residential and occupational history of exposure to ETS. RESULTS Among never smokers, those who were exposed to ETS both as a child and as an adult had an odds ratio of 1.21 (95% CI=0.60-2.44) relative to those with no exposure. For active smoking, when the referent group consisted of never smokers who had not been regularly exposed to ETS, the risk increases were more pronounced with an increased number of years of smoking, cigarette pack-years, years since quit smoking, and average number of cigarettes smoked daily. CONCLUSIONS Overall, our results are suggestive of a weak association between pancreatic cancer and ETS. Perhaps more importantly, they suggest that ETS smoking exposures may confound the risk of pancreatic cancer associated with active smoking measures commonly used in epidemiologic studies.
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Joad JP, Munch PA, Bric JM, Evans SJ, Pinkerton KE, Chen CY, Bonham AC. Passive smoke effects on cough and airways in young guinea pigs: role of brainstem substance P. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003; 169:499-504. [PMID: 14644932 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.200308-1139oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Children raised with extended exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) experience increased cough and wheeze. This study was designed to determine whether extended ETS exposure enhances citric acid-induced cough and bronchoconstriction in young guinea pigs via a neurokinin-1 (NK-1) receptor mechanism at the first central synapse of lung afferent neurons, the nucleus tractus solitarius. Guinea pigs were exposed to ETS from 1 to 6 weeks of age. At 5 weeks of age, guide cannulae were implanted bilaterally in the medial nucleus tractus solitarius at a site that produced apnea in response to the glutamate agonist D,L-homocysteic acid. At 6 weeks of age, either vehicle or a NK-1 receptor antagonist, SR 140333, was injected into the nucleus tractus solitarius of the conscious guinea pigs who were then exposed to citric acid aerosol. ETS exposure significantly enhanced citric acid-induced cough by 56% and maximal Penh (a measure of airway obstruction) by 43%, effects that were attenuated by the NK-1 receptor antagonist in the nucleus tractus solitarius. We conclude that in young guinea pigs extended exposure to ETS increases citric acid-induced cough and bronchoconstriction in part by an NK-1 receptor mechanism in the nucleus tractus solitarius.
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- Jesse P Joad
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA.
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Pavanello S, Simioli P, Carrieri M, Gregorio P, Clonfero E. Tobacco-smoke exposure indicators and urinary mutagenicity. Mutat Res 2002; 521:1-9. [PMID: 12437998 DOI: 10.1016/s1383-5718(02)00208-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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In this study, the correlation of indicators of external (i.e. mean daily intake of condensate, nicotine, tobacco and tobacco proteins, and daily number of cigarettes smoked) and of internal tobacco-smoke exposure (i.e. urinary 1-pyrenol, nicotine and its metabolites and trans,trans-muconic acid) with urinary mutagenicity, detected on YG1024 Salmonella typhimurium strain with S9, were examined in 118 smokers. An increase in urinary mutagenicity was clearly significantly correlated with each external and internal indicators of exposure to tobacco smoke (correlation coefficient (r) ranging between 0.22 and 0.54, P<0.01), with a greater extent in the case of indicators of internal dose. In multiple regression analysis, among the indicators of external exposure, daily tobacco intake was the only variable significantly associated with urinary mutagenicity (t=2.47, P=0.015, with partial contribution to r(2)=5.15%). Instead, when all indicators of exposure (external and internal) were considered in the analysis, the influence of urinary 1-pyrenol on urinary mutagenicity was predominant, followed by those of urinary trans,trans-muconic acid and nicotine plus metabolites (t=4.63, 2.73 and 2.08, P<0.001, P=0.002 and 0.04, with partial contribution to r(2)=17.0, 6.66 and 3.96%, respectively), with no influence at all of external tobacco-smoke exposure indicators. In conclusion, our results show that indicators of internal dose are better correlated with formation of mutagens in urine of smokers. Among these, the best indicator was urinary 1-pyrenol and this result designates the combustion processes of tobacco as the determining step for the formation of urinary mutagens. However, as these biomarkers cannot be analysed the amount of daily tobacco intake represent the best valuable index of external (presumptive) exposure to tobacco-smoke genotoxins.
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- Sofia Pavanello
- Section of Occupational Health, Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, I-35128 Padova, Italy
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Hecht SS. Human urinary carcinogen metabolites: biomarkers for investigating tobacco and cancer. Carcinogenesis 2002; 23:907-22. [PMID: 12082012 DOI: 10.1093/carcin/23.6.907] [Citation(s) in RCA: 293] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Measurement of human urinary carcinogen metabolites is a practical approach for obtaining important information about tobacco and cancer. This review presents currently available methods and evaluates their utility. Carcinogens and their metabolites and related compounds that have been quantified in the urine of smokers or non-smokers exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) include trans,trans-muconic acid (tt-MA) and S-phenylmercapturic acid (metabolites of benzene), 1- and 2-naphthol, hydroxyphenanthrenes and phenanthrene dihydrodiols, 1-hydroxypyrene (1-HOP), metabolites of benzo[a]pyrene, aromatic amines and heterocyclic aromatic amines, N-nitrosoproline, 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol and its glucuronides (NNAL and NNAL-Gluc), 8-oxodeoxyguanosine, thioethers, mercapturic acids, and alkyladenines. Nitrosamines and their metabolites have also been quantified in the urine of smokeless tobacco users. The utility of these assays to provide information about carcinogen dose, delineation of exposed vs. non-exposed individuals, and carcinogen metabolism in humans is discussed. NNAL and NNAL-Gluc are exceptionally useful biomarkers because they are derived from a carcinogen- 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK)- that is specific to tobacco products. The NNAL assay has high sensitivity and specificity, which are particularly important for studies on ETS exposure. Other useful assays that have been widely applied involve quantitation of 1-HOP and tt-MA. Urinary carcinogen metabolite biomarkers will be critical components of future studies on tobacco and human cancer, particularly with respect to new tobacco products and strategies for harm reduction, the role of metabolic polymorphisms in cancer, and further evaluation of human carcinogen exposure from ETS.
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- Stephen S Hecht
- University of Minnesota Cancer Center, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
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Mascher DG, Mascher HJ, Scherer G, Schmid ER. High-performance liquid chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometric determination of 3-hydroxypropylmercapturic acid in human urine. JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY. B, BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AND APPLICATIONS 2001; 750:163-9. [PMID: 11204217 DOI: 10.1016/s0378-4347(00)00385-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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A sensitive and specific high-performance liquid chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometric (HPLC-MS-MS) method was developed for the determination of 3-hydroxypropylmercapturic acid (3-HPMA) in human urine. Samples were extracted using ENV+ cartridges and then injected onto a C8 Superspher Select B column with acetonitrile and formic acid as eluent (5:95, v/v). N-Acetylcysteine was used as internal standard for HPLC-MS-MS. Linearity was given in the tested range of 50-5000 ng/ml urine. The limit of quantification was 50 ng/ml. Precision, as C.V., in the tested range of 50-5000 ng/ml was 1.47-6.04%. Accuracy ranged from 87 to 114%. 3-HPMA was stable in human urine at 37 degrees C for 24 h. The method was able to quantify 3-HPMA in urine of non-smokers and smokers.
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- D G Mascher
- Pharm Analyt Laboratory GmbH, Baden, Austria.
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Ardévol E, Minguillón C, Garcia G, Serra ME, Gonzalez CA, Alvarez L, Eritja R, Lafuente A. Environmental tobacco smoke interference in the assessment of the health impact of a municipal waste incinerator on children through urinary thioether assay. Public Health 1999; 113:295-8. [PMID: 10637522 DOI: 10.1016/s0033-3506(99)00183-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The urinary elimination of thioethers urinary thioethers (UT) was studied in 83 schoolchildren living in two different areas of the city of Mataró, with special attention paid to the influence of a waste incinerator and of the smoking habits of their parents. The mean UT values were 8.79+/-3.23 and 7.52+/-3.23 mmol/mol creatinine in the area close to the incinerator (A1) and in the area far away from it (A2) respectively (statistically n.s.). Children exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) at home presented increased levels of UT (8.60+/-3.11 vs 5.93+/-3.22 mmol/mol creatinine; P=0.002). Considering the two exposures together (waste incinerator and ETS), no differences were found between the two areas studied (A1 and A2) in non-exposed (ETS) children, whereas slight differences were found when comparing highest ETS exposed children from the two areas (10. 18+/-2.70 vs 8.00+/-3.42 mmol/mol creatinine; P=0.04). Exposure to ETS could affect health more than pollutants from a waste incinerator and may interfere with non-selective assays such as urinary thioethers.
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- E Ardévol
- Colegio Farmaceuticos de Barcelona, Spain
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It has by now become obvious that environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) may pose a health risk to nonsmokers. Epidemiological data suggest that exposure to ETS may increase the risk of developing lung cancer, cardiovascular disease, intrauterine growth retardation, predisposition to chronic lung disease, and sudden infant death syndrome. The human populations most at risk from ETS exposure appear to be neonates, young children, and possibly the fetus while in utero. Experimental studies with cigarette sidestream smoke (SS) have successfully duplicated several of these disease conditions in laboratory animals, particularly the effects of SS on fetal growth, lung maturation, and altered airway reactivity. The availability of animal models may open the way to fruitful experimental studies on mechanisms that help us to better understand disease.
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- H Witschi
- Institute of Toxicology and Environmental Health, School of Medicine, University of California at Davis, 95616, USA
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Scherer G, Doolittle DJ, Ruppert T, Meger-Kossien I, Riedel K, Tricker AR, Adlkofer F. Urinary mutagenicity and thioethers in nonsmokers: role of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and diet. Mutat Res 1996; 368:195-204. [PMID: 8692225 DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1218(96)90061-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The urinary excretion of mutagens and thioethers was investigated in a controlled diet study and in two field studies. A diet containing charcoal-broiled meat and other items rich in mutagenic compounds increased the urinary mutagenicity as assessed in Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98 with metabolic activation approximately 46-fold compared to a diet low in mutagens. The excretion of thioethers after ingestion of the diet rich in mutagens also increased significantly when compared to the diet low in mutagens. The increase was associated with the content of preformed thioethers in the diet. In the first field study with 21 nonsmokers, urinary mutagenicity as assessed in Salmonella typhimurium strain TA98 and excretion of thioethers showed no relation to either the self-reported exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or to serum cotinine concentrations used as an objective marker for ETS exposure. In the second field study, urinary mutagenicity was determined with a tobacco-smoke sensitive Salmonella typhimurium strain YG1024 with metabolic activation. No correlation was found between the mutagenic activity in urine and ETS exposure duration, nicotine on the personal sampler, cotinine in saliva and cotinine in urine. Our results suggest that real-life ETS exposure does not measurably increase either urinary mutagen or urinary thioether excretion. Furthermore, diet seems to be the most important source for both urinary mutagen and thioether excretion in nonsmokers.
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- G Scherer
- Analytisch-biologisches Forschungslabor Prof. Adlkofer, München, Germany
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Eskenazi B, Prehn AW, Christianson RE. Passive and active maternal smoking as measured by serum cotinine: the effect on birthweight. Am J Public Health 1995; 85:395-8. [PMID: 7892926 PMCID: PMC1614894 DOI: 10.2105/ajph.85.3.395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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To determine how maternal exposure to environmental tobacco smoke affects birthweight, maternal sera obtained from 3529 pregnant women around 27 weeks gestation were analyzed for cotinine, a metabolite of nicotine. Based on cotinine levels, nonsmokers were divided into those exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (2-10 ng/mL) and those unexposed (< 2 ng/mL), and smokers were divided into tertiles. Compared with unexposed nonsmokers' infants, infants of exposed nonsmokers averaged 45 g less (P = .28) after adjustment for confounders, and smokers' infants averaged 78, 191, and 233 g less for the first, second, and third cotinine tertiles, respectively. Birthweight decreased 1 g for every nanogram per milliliter of cotinine increase (P < .001).
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- B Eskenazi
- Maternal and Child Health and Epidemiology Programs, School of Public Health, University of California-Berkeley 94720
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Jongeneelen FJ. Biological monitoring of environmental exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; 1-hydroxypyrene in urine of people. Toxicol Lett 1994; 72:205-11. [PMID: 8202933 DOI: 10.1016/0378-4274(94)90030-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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A biomarker of human exposure to chemical agents provides a valuable parameter for assessing the extent and significance of the uptake by giving a measurement that is direct and integrated over time and exposure routes. Urinary 1-hydroxypyrene is currently tested as a biomarker for the assessment of low level environmental exposure of people to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH). Five examples of the application of urinary 1-hydroxypyrene methodology in the assessment of environmental exposure to PAH are presented: inhalation of tobacco smoke; inhalation of urban outdoor air; windsurfers sailing on polluted water; absorption of contaminated food; exposure in an urban area with many heavy industries. The examples illustrate that the urinary 1-hydroxypyrene test is sufficiently sensitive. Urinary 1-hydroxypyrene is an effective biomarker for the assessment of human environmental exposure to PAH.
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Van Rooij JG, Veeger MM, Bodelier-Bade MM, Scheepers PT, Jongeneelen FJ. Smoking and dietary intake of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as sources of interindividual variability in the baseline excretion of 1-hydroxypyrene in urine. Int Arch Occup Environ Health 1994; 66:55-65. [PMID: 7927844 DOI: 10.1007/bf00386580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 129] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Seventy-six male volunteers, who were not occupationally exposed to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), participated in a study on the effect of tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, dietary PAH intake, age, and body fat content on the baseline excretion of 1-hydroxypyrene in urine. Major determinants of urinary 1-hydroxypyrene excretion were smoking, dietary PAH intake, and age. The mean 1-hydroxypyrene concentrations in the urine of the volunteers in this study ranged between 0.05 and 0.79 mumol/mol creatinine. Smokers excreted on average 0.25 mumol/mol creatinine (range: 0.10-0.79 mumol/mol creatinine), and nonsmokers on average 0.12 mumol/mol creatinine (range: 0.04-0.29 mumol/mol creatinine). The average number of cigarettes smoked per day correlated well with urinary 1-hydroxypyrene concentrations (rs = 0.67, P < 0.001). The consumption of PAH-containing food products and active smoking account for 99% of total pyrene intake. The effect of age on 1-hydroxypyrene excretion is probably caused by a lower creatinine excretion in the elderly. Passive smoking and fat content had a statistically significant, but negligible effect on urinary 1-hydroxypyrene excretion. Passive smoking and the inhalation of ambient air are relatively in important for total pyrene intake (both account for less than 1%). Neither the consumption of alcohol nor the inhalation of ambient air significantly affected urinary 1-hydroxypyrene excretion. It is concluded that when urinary 1-OH-pyrene excretion is used in the assessment of PAH exposure, one should particularly be aware of the interindividual variability of the baseline excretion of PAH metabolites due to tobacco smoking and dietary PAH intake.
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- J G Van Rooij
- Department of Toxicology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, University ofl Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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