The association between air pollution parameters and emergency department visits and hospitalizations due to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases: a time-series analysis

Author(s):  
Hasan Saygin ◽  
Yeliz Mercan ◽  
Faruk Yorulmaz
Author(s):  
Laura Rodríguez-Villamizar ◽  
Néstor Rojas-Roa ◽  
Luis Blanco-Becerra ◽  
Víctor Herrera-Galindo ◽  
Julián Fernández-Niño

Few studies have been conducted on the effect of air pollution on morbidity in Latin America. This study analyzed the effects of air pollution on respiratory and circulatory morbidity in four major cities in Colombia. An ecological time-series analysis was conducted with pollution data from air quality monitoring networks and information on emergency department visits between 2011 and 2014. Daily 24-h averages were calculated for NO2, PM10, PM2.5, and SO2 as well as 8-h averages for CO and O3. Separate time-series were constructed by disease group and pollutant. Conditional negative binomial regression models were used with average population effects. Effects were calculated for the same day and were adjusted for weather conditions, age groups, and their interactions. The results showed that effects of some of the pollutants differed among the cities. For NO2, PM10, and PM2.5, the multi-city models showed greater and statistically significant percentage increases in emergency department visits for respiratory diseases, particularly for the 5 to 9-year-old age group. These same pollutants also significantly affected the rate of emergency department visits for circulatory diseases, especially for the group of persons over 60 years of age.


2017 ◽  
Vol 108 (5-6) ◽  
pp. e462-e467 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naveen Poonai ◽  
Shruti Mehrotra ◽  
Muhammad Mamdani ◽  
Anastasia Patmanidis ◽  
Michael Miller ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 224 ◽  
pp. 310-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Zhao ◽  
Yongming Zhang ◽  
Wenyi Zhang ◽  
Shanshan Li ◽  
Gongbo Chen ◽  
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10.1289/ehp44 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 125 (5) ◽  
pp. 057009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tianqi Chen ◽  
Stefanie E. Sarnat ◽  
Andrew J. Grundstein ◽  
Andrea Winquist ◽  
Howard H. Chang

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