Respiratory diseases are positively associated with PM(2.5) concentrations in different areas of Taiwan

The health effects associated with fine particulate matter (PM(2.5)) have attracted considerable public attention in recent decades. It has been verified that PM(2.5) can damage the respiratory and cardiovascular systems and cause various diseases. While the association between diseases and PM(2.5)...

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Autores principales: Wang, Feifei, Chen, Tianyi, Chang, Qian, Kao, Yi-Wei, Li, Jian, Chen, Mingchih, Li, Yang, Shia, Ben-Chang
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33886613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249694
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author Wang, Feifei
Chen, Tianyi
Chang, Qian
Kao, Yi-Wei
Li, Jian
Chen, Mingchih
Li, Yang
Shia, Ben-Chang
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Chen, Tianyi
Chang, Qian
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description The health effects associated with fine particulate matter (PM(2.5)) have attracted considerable public attention in recent decades. It has been verified that PM(2.5) can damage the respiratory and cardiovascular systems and cause various diseases. While the association between diseases and PM(2.5) has been widely studied, this work aims to analyze the association between PM(2.5) and hospital visit rates for respiratory diseases in Taiwan. To this end, a disease mapping model that considers spatial effects is applied to estimate the association. The results show that there is a positive association between hospital visit rates and the PM(2.5) concentrations in the Taiwanese population in 2012 after controlling for other variables, such as smoking rates and the number of hospitals in each region. This finding indicates that control of PM(2.5) could decrease hospital visit rates for respiratory diseases in Taiwan.
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spelling pubmed-80620732021-05-04 Respiratory diseases are positively associated with PM(2.5) concentrations in different areas of Taiwan Wang, Feifei Chen, Tianyi Chang, Qian Kao, Yi-Wei Li, Jian Chen, Mingchih Li, Yang Shia, Ben-Chang PLoS One Research Article The health effects associated with fine particulate matter (PM(2.5)) have attracted considerable public attention in recent decades. It has been verified that PM(2.5) can damage the respiratory and cardiovascular systems and cause various diseases. While the association between diseases and PM(2.5) has been widely studied, this work aims to analyze the association between PM(2.5) and hospital visit rates for respiratory diseases in Taiwan. To this end, a disease mapping model that considers spatial effects is applied to estimate the association. The results show that there is a positive association between hospital visit rates and the PM(2.5) concentrations in the Taiwanese population in 2012 after controlling for other variables, such as smoking rates and the number of hospitals in each region. This finding indicates that control of PM(2.5) could decrease hospital visit rates for respiratory diseases in Taiwan. Public Library of Science 2021-04-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8062073/ /pubmed/33886613 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249694 Text en © 2021 Wang et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Wang, Feifei
Chen, Tianyi
Chang, Qian
Kao, Yi-Wei
Li, Jian
Chen, Mingchih
Li, Yang
Shia, Ben-Chang
Respiratory diseases are positively associated with PM(2.5) concentrations in different areas of Taiwan
title Respiratory diseases are positively associated with PM(2.5) concentrations in different areas of Taiwan
title_full Respiratory diseases are positively associated with PM(2.5) concentrations in different areas of Taiwan
title_fullStr Respiratory diseases are positively associated with PM(2.5) concentrations in different areas of Taiwan
title_full_unstemmed Respiratory diseases are positively associated with PM(2.5) concentrations in different areas of Taiwan
title_short Respiratory diseases are positively associated with PM(2.5) concentrations in different areas of Taiwan
title_sort respiratory diseases are positively associated with pm(2.5) concentrations in different areas of taiwan
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8062073/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33886613
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249694
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