It all adds up: Non-environmental stressors, cardiovascular dysregulation, and worsened air pollution responses

Dr. Mehdi Hazari is a research physiologist in the Public Health and Integrated Toxicology Division in the Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. His work focuses on the effects of air pollution and other toxicants on the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, in particular, neurally-mediated mechanisms that drive the development of electrical instability, reflexive desensitization and the worsening of disease. In addition, his lab examines the role of transient receptor potential cation A1 (TRPA1) channels in these responses. His seminar titled "It all adds up: Non-environmental stressors, cardiovascular dysregulation, and worsened air pollution responses" will describe the modifying effects of non-environmental factors (diet, psychosocial stress, etc.) on homeostatic regulation and subsequent responses to air pollution.