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Living Well with Pollution? The Impact of the Concentration of PM(2.5) on the Quality of Life of Patients with Asthma

While the negative influence of environmental pollution on the respiratory system is well established, especially for people with bronchial hyper-reactivity, the impact of particulate matter on quality of life in asthma patients is not well understood. Three hundred adult asthma patients were recrui...

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Autores principales: Ścibor, Monika, Galbarczyk, Andrzej, Jasienska, Grazyna
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6678877/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31337044
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16142502
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author Ścibor, Monika
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description While the negative influence of environmental pollution on the respiratory system is well established, especially for people with bronchial hyper-reactivity, the impact of particulate matter on quality of life in asthma patients is not well understood. Three hundred adult asthma patients were recruited for a study; for each patient, the daily concentrations of particulate matter of 2.5 µm or less in diameter (PM(2.5)) were recorded from air quality monitoring stations. The study was conducted over two weeks. After two weeks, the patients filled out the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ), evaluating the quality of their lives throughout the monitored period. Patients exposed to a higher concentration of PM(2.5) had significantly lower AQLQ scores. Every 10 µg/m(3) of an increase in the concentration of PM(2.5) resulted in a decrease of the AQLQ score by 0.16. All domains of quality of life (symptoms, activity limitations, emotional functioning, and environmental stimuli) assessed in the questionnaire were negatively affected by PM(2.5). These findings provide an important argument in favor of educating physicians and patients and raising awareness about the detrimental health effects of air pollution. Improving the quality of life of people with asthma requires an immediate and substantial reduction of air pollution.
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spelling pubmed-66788772019-08-19 Living Well with Pollution? The Impact of the Concentration of PM(2.5) on the Quality of Life of Patients with Asthma Ścibor, Monika Galbarczyk, Andrzej Jasienska, Grazyna Int J Environ Res Public Health Article While the negative influence of environmental pollution on the respiratory system is well established, especially for people with bronchial hyper-reactivity, the impact of particulate matter on quality of life in asthma patients is not well understood. Three hundred adult asthma patients were recruited for a study; for each patient, the daily concentrations of particulate matter of 2.5 µm or less in diameter (PM(2.5)) were recorded from air quality monitoring stations. The study was conducted over two weeks. After two weeks, the patients filled out the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ), evaluating the quality of their lives throughout the monitored period. Patients exposed to a higher concentration of PM(2.5) had significantly lower AQLQ scores. Every 10 µg/m(3) of an increase in the concentration of PM(2.5) resulted in a decrease of the AQLQ score by 0.16. All domains of quality of life (symptoms, activity limitations, emotional functioning, and environmental stimuli) assessed in the questionnaire were negatively affected by PM(2.5). These findings provide an important argument in favor of educating physicians and patients and raising awareness about the detrimental health effects of air pollution. Improving the quality of life of people with asthma requires an immediate and substantial reduction of air pollution. MDPI 2019-07-13 2019-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6678877/ /pubmed/31337044 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16142502 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31337044
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16142502
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