RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Fine particles matter components and interstitial lung disease in rheumatoid arthritis
JF European Respiratory Journal
JO Eur Respir J
FD European Respiratory Society
SP 2102149
DO 10.1183/13993003.02149-2021
A1 Naizhuo Zhao
A1 Ziyad Al-Aly
A1 Boyang Zheng
A1 Aaron van Donkelaar
A1 Randall V. Martin
A1 Christian A. Pineau
A1 Sasha Bernatsky
YR 2021
UL http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/2021/12/02/13993003.02149-2021.abstract
AB Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a risk factor for pulmonary and systemic autoimmune diseases, however evidence on which PM2.5 chemical components are more harmful is still scant. Our goal is to investigate potential associations between PM2.5 components and interstitial lung disease (ILD) onset in rheumatoid arthritis (RA).New-onset RA subjects identified from a United States health care insurance database (MarketScan) were followed for new onset of RA associated ILD (RA-ILD) from 2011 to 2018. Annual ambient PM2.5 concentrations of its chemical components (i.e. sulfate, nitrate, ammonium, organic matter, black carbon, mineral dust, and sea salt) were estimated by combining satellite retrievals with chemical transport modelling and refined by geographically weighted regression. Exposures from 2006 up to one year before ILD onset or end of study were assigned to subjects based on their metropolitan division or core-based statistical area codes. A novel time-to-event quantile-based g(generalised)-computation approach was used to estimate potential associations between RA-ILD onset and the exposure mixture of all seven PM2.5 chemical components adjusting for age, sex, and prior chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (as a proxy for smoking).We followed 280 516 new-onset RA patients and detected 2194 RA-ILD cases across 1 394 385 person-years. The adjusted hazard ratio for RA-ILD onset was 1.54 (95% confidence interval 1.47–1.63) per every decile increase in all seven exposures. Ammonium, mineral dust, and black carbon contributed more to ILD risk than the other PM2.5 components.In conclusion, exposure to elements of PM2.5, particularly ammonium, increases ILD risk in RA.FootnotesThis manuscript has recently been accepted for publication in the European Respiratory Journal. It is published here in its accepted form prior to copyediting and typesetting by our production team. After these production processes are complete and the authors have approved the resulting proofs, the article will move to the latest issue of the ERJ online. Please open or download the PDF to view this article.Conflict of interest: Dr. Zhao has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Al-Aly has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Zheng has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. van Donkelaar has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Martin has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Pineau has nothing to disclose.Conflict of interest: Dr. Bernatsky reports that support for the present manuscript is from Canadian Institutes of Health Research to Research Institute of the McGill University Health Center.