Periprocedural, early, and long-term risks of pacemaker implantation after atrioventricular nodal re-entry tachycardia ablation: a French nationwide cohort.

Aims: Pacemaker implantation (PI) after atrioventricular nodal re-entry tachycardia (AVNRT) ablation is a dreadful complication. We aimed to assess periprocedural, early, and late risks for PI.

Methods And Results: All 27 022 patients who underwent latest AVNRT ablation in France from 2009 to 2017, were identified in the nationwide medicalization database.

Residential exposure to outdoor air pollution and adult lung function, with focus on small airway obstruction.

Although a growing body of evidence suggests that chronic exposure to outdoor air pollution is linked to a decline in lung function, data on flow at low lung volumes that may be more specific of small airway obstruction are still scarce. We aimed to study the associations between residential exposure to air pollution and lung function, with specific focus on small airways obstruction. We assessed 2995 French participants (aged between 40 and 65) in the ELISABET cross-sectional survey.

Associations between long-term exposure to air pollution, glycosylated hemoglobin, fasting blood glucose and diabetes mellitus in northern France.

Introduction: A growing body of evidence suggests that long-term exposure to air pollutants like nitrogen oxides (NO) and particulate matter (PM) is associated with the prevalence and incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Serum glucose and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels are biomarkers of glucose homeostasis. Data on the association between glucose homeostasis biomarkers and air pollution are scarce.