Air Pollution Can Interfere with Sleep
“Prior studies have shown that air pollution impacts heart health and affects breathing and lung function, but less is known about whether air pollution affects sleep,” said lead author Martha E. Billings, MD, MSc, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Washington. “We thought an effect was likely given that air pollution causes upper airway irritation, swelling and congestion, and may also affect the central nervous system and brain areas that control breathing patterns and sleep.”
The researchers analyzed data from 1,863 participants (average age 68) in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) who also enrolled in both MESA’s Sleep and Air Pollution studies. The researchers looked at two of the most common air pollutants: NO2 (traffic-related pollutant gas) and PM2.5, or fine-particle pollution. Using air pollution measurements gathered from hundreds of MESA Air and Environmental Protection Agency monitoring sites in six U.S. cities, plus local environment features and sophisticated statistical tools, the research team was able to estimate air pollution exposures at each participant’s home at two time points: one year and five years.
Wrist actigraphy, which measures small movements, provided detailed estimates of sleep and wake patterns over seven consecutive days. This was used to calculate “sleep efficiency”–a measure of the percentage of time in bed spent asleep vs. awake. Researchers found that the sleep efficiency of the lowest 25 percent of participants was 88 percent or less. The research team studied if pollution exposures differed among those in this low sleep efficiency group.
The population was divided into “fourths” according to levels of pollution. The quarter of those who experienced the highest levels of pollution was compared to the quarter with the lowest levels.
The study found:
The group with the highest levels of NO2 over five years had an almost 60 percent increased likelihood of having low sleep efficiency compared to those with the lowest NO2 levels. The group with the highest exposures to small particulates (PM2.5) had a nearly 50 percent increased likelihood of having low sleep efficiency.
The authors adjusted for a range of factors, including age, body mass, obstructive sleep apnea, race/ethnicity, income and smoking status. They also adjusted for neighborhood socioeconomic status.
The researchers were particularly interested in chronic exposure to air pollution and what that long-term exposure might mean for sleep health. “There may be acute sleep effects to short-term exposure to high pollution levels as well, but we lacked the data to study that link,” Dr. Billings said, noting that the parent MESA study is investigating the chronic effects of air pollution on cardiovascular health.
“These new findings indicate the possibility that commonly experienced levels of air pollution not only affect heart and lung disease, but also sleep quality. Improving air quality may be one way to enhance sleep health and perhaps reduce health disparities,” Dr. Billings said.
Future studies, she added, need to explore the association between other air pollutants and sleep, the mechanisms by which these pollutants may disrupt sleep patterns and whether traffic noise is the driving factor contributing to poor sleep quality.
Contacts and sources:
University of Washington
Dacia Morris
American Thoracic Society (ATS)
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Ostensibly, Geo-engineering HAARP and Chemtrails and jews (sic), have nothing to do with it ya? Get on Theses.
Why Chemtrails? / The Illuminati Chemtrail Connection
February 8, 2015
“I have taken a lot of time to assemble this story because I firmly believe that chemtrails are harming and killing people.”
By Bruce Conway
Why Chemtrails?
Why is Anyone Interested In Spraying Chemtrails?
“…..the symptoms of MERCURY POISONING and CHEMTRAIL POISONING are IDENTICAL. Combined with the fact that many of the symptoms we experience during spraying can only be attributed to mercury poisoning, we now have strong symptomatic evidence that CHEMTRAILS DO INDEED CONTAIN MERCURY.
This conclusion naturally leads us to the question, “Why?”
“…I have come to the firm conclusion that there are multiple purposes for the chemtrail campaign.
1.. Cover your ankles
2.. Population control
3.. Centralization of POWER
First, it’s a COVER -YOUR ANKLES CAMPAIGN.
The PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY is currently …facing.. potential LITIGATION resulting from the death and HARM CAUSED BY MERCURY IN VACCINES.
Add to this the rapidly-growing percentage of the population that has learned about mercury and is now refusing vaccines.
THIS HAS CAUSED HUMAN EXPOSURE… TO MERCURY… TO DROP DRAMATICALLY.
With this sudden DROP IN MERCURY EXPOSURE, you would EXPECT MERCURY RELATED DISEASES — including autism — TO DECLINE.
THIS DECLINE WOULD PROVIDE COMPELLING epidemiological (population-based) DATA THAT WOULD (again) POINT TO MERCURY AS THE CAUSE.
…..THIS epidemiological DATA COULD TIP THE SCALES and CAUSE A LANDSLIDE of LITIGATION ..
THAT WOULD BANKRUPT the PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY — a good thing, in this author’s opinion.
TO PREVENT THIS LANDSLIDE…..
INHALED MERCURY is VERY SIMILAR to INJECTED MERCURY, IN THAT IT IS IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE TO THE BLOODSTREAM. 
The PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES ….
HAD to FIND a WAY to DISTRIBUTE MERCURY IN THE POPULATION
CHEMTRAILS are the PERFECT SOLUTION …..BECAUSE….
….the PHARMACEUTICAL companies are NOT WORKING ALONE….
They DON’T HAVE the…JETS….INFRASTRUCTURE….AUTHORITY…
This would take the FEDERAL government & … MILITARY WORKING TOGETHER.
Enter, POPULATION CONTROL.
1.. STERILIZATION
2..MURDER…IT MUST BE DONE IN WAYS that DO NOT MAKE it APPARENT to the PUBLIC.
Few know that MERCURY is the PERFECT POISON, FULFILLING both of the ABOVE REQUIRMENTS.
Chemtrail Spraying is ILLEGAL UNDER U.S. LAW U.S. Legal Code – US House of Representatives / TITLE 50, CHAPTER 32, Sec.1520a http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/50/1520a.html
Sec. 1520a. – Restrictions on use of HUMAN SUBJECTS FOR TESTING of chemical or biological agents
A. Prohibited activities The Secretary of Defense may not conduct (directly or by contract) – (1) any test or experiment involving the use of a chemical agent or biological agent on a civilian population; or (2) any other testing of a chemical agent or biological agent on human subjects.
B. Exceptions – Subject to subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this section, the prohibition in subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a test or experiment carried out for any of the following purposes: (1) Any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical, therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or research activity. (2) Any purpose that is directly related to protection against toxic chemicals or biological weapons and agents. (3) Any law enforcement purpose, including any purpose related to riot control.
C. INFORMED CONSENT REQUIRED The Secretary of Defense may conduct a test or experiment described in subsection (b) of this section only if informed consent to the testing was obtained from each human subject in advance of the testing on that subject.
D. Prior notice to Congress Not later than 30 days after the date of final approval within the Department of Defense of plans for any experiment or study to be conducted by the Department of Defense (whether directly or under contract) involving the use of human subjects for the testing of a chemical agent or a biological agent, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report setting forth a full accounting of those plans, and the experiment or study may then be conducted only after the end of the 30-day period beginning on the date such report is received by those committees.
E. ”Biological agent” defined In this section, the term ”biological agent” means any micro-organism (including bacteria, viruses, fungi, rickettsiac, or protozoa), pathogen, or infectious substance, and any naturally occurring, bioengineered, or synthesized component of any such micro-organism, pathogen, or infectious substance, whatever its origin or method of production, that is capable of causing – (1) death, disease, or other biological malfunction in a human, an animal, a plant, or another living organism; (2) deterioration of food, water, equipment, supplies, or materials of any kind; or (3) deleterious alteration of the environment
http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/why-chemtrails-the-illuminati-chemtrail-connection
There is a LOT MORE in the ARTICLE than I have OUTLINED above.
This article is essential reading for those interested in the END GAME of the ‘SCUM at the top’.