Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China; Key Laboratory of Environment and Health, Ministry of Education & Ministry of Environmental Protection, and State Key Laboratory of Environmental Health (Incubating), School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, 430030, China.
Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; Shenzhen Research Institute of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China.
Environ Pollut. 2024 May 15;349:123945. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2024.123945. Epub 2024 Apr 9.
Noise pollution has grown to be a major public health issue worldwide. We sought to profile serum metabolite expression changes related to occupational noise exposure by untargeted metabolomics, as well as to evaluate the potential roles of serum metabolites in occupational noise-associated arterial stiffness (AS). Our study involved 30 noise-exposed industrial personnel (Lipo group) and 30 noise-free controls (Blank group). The untargeted metabolomic analysis was performed by employing a UPLC-HRMS. The associations of occupational noise and significant differential metabolites (between Blank/Lipo groups) with AS were evaluated using multivariable-adjusted generalized linear models. We performed the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator regression analysis to further screen for AS's risk metabolites. We explored 177 metabolites across 21 categories significantly differentially expressed between Blank/Lipo groups, and these metabolites were enriched in 20 metabolic pathways. Moreover, 15 metabolites in 4 classes (including food, glycerophosphocholine, sphingomyelin [SM] and triacylglycerols [TAG]) were adversely associated with AS (all P < 0.05). Meanwhile, five metabolites (homostachydrine, phosphatidylcholine (PC) (32:1e), PC (38:6p), SM (d41:2) and TAG (45:1) have been proven to be useful predictors of AS prevalence. However, none of these 15 metabolites were found to have a mediating influence on occupational noise-induced AS. Our study reveals specific metabolic changes caused by occupational noise exposure, and several metabolites may have protective effects on AS. However, the roles of serum metabolites in noise-AS association remain to be validated in future studies.
噪声污染已成为全球主要的公共卫生问题。我们试图通过非靶向代谢组学来描绘与职业性噪声暴露相关的血清代谢物表达变化,并评估血清代谢物在职业性噪声相关动脉僵硬(AS)中的潜在作用。我们的研究纳入了 30 名噪声暴露的工业人员(脂质组)和 30 名无噪声对照(空白组)。采用 UPLC-HRMS 进行非靶向代谢组学分析。采用多变量调整的广义线性模型评估职业性噪声和显著差异代谢物(空白/脂质组之间)与 AS 的相关性。我们进行了最小绝对收缩和选择算子回归分析,以进一步筛选 AS 的风险代谢物。我们发现 21 个类别中的 177 种代谢物在空白/脂质组之间差异表达显著,这些代谢物富集在 20 个代谢途径中。此外,4 类中的 15 种代谢物(包括食物、甘油磷酸胆碱、鞘磷脂[SM]和三酰基甘油[TAG])与 AS 呈负相关(均 P < 0.05)。同时,5 种代谢物(高丝氨酸、磷脂酰胆碱(PC)(32:1e)、PC(38:6p)、SM(d41:2)和 TAG(45:1))已被证明是 AS 患病率的有用预测因子。然而,这 15 种代谢物中没有一种被发现对职业性噪声引起的 AS 有中介作用。本研究揭示了职业性噪声暴露引起的特定代谢变化,几种代谢物可能对 AS 具有保护作用。然而,血清代谢物在噪声-AS 关联中的作用仍有待未来研究验证。
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