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Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Increased Emergency Room Visits for Skin Diseases in Beijing, China

Skin diseases have become a global concern. This study aims to evaluate the associations between ambient air pollution and emergency room visits for skin diseases under the background of improving air quality in China. Based on 45,094 cases from a general hospital and fixed-site monitoring environme...

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Autores principales: Wang, Wanzhou, Zhang, Wenlou, Zhao, Jingjing, Li, Hongyu, Wu, Jun, Deng, Furong, Ma, Qingbian, Guo, Xinbiao
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8151157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34065905
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics9050108
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author Wang, Wanzhou
Zhang, Wenlou
Zhao, Jingjing
Li, Hongyu
Wu, Jun
Deng, Furong
Ma, Qingbian
Guo, Xinbiao
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Zhang, Wenlou
Zhao, Jingjing
Li, Hongyu
Wu, Jun
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Ma, Qingbian
Guo, Xinbiao
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description Skin diseases have become a global concern. This study aims to evaluate the associations between ambient air pollution and emergency room visits for skin diseases under the background of improving air quality in China. Based on 45,094 cases from a general hospital and fixed-site monitoring environmental data from 2014–2019 in Beijing, China, this study used generalized additive models with quasi-Poisson regression to estimate the exposure–health associations at lag 0–1 to lag 0–7. PM(2.5) and NO(2) exposure were associated with increased emergency room visits for total skin diseases (ICD10: L00-L99). Positive associations of PM(2.5), PM(10), O(3) and NO(2) with dermatitis/eczema (ICD-10: L20–30), as well as SO(2) and NO(2) with urticaria (ICD-10: L50) visits were also found. For instance, a 10 μg/m(3) increase in PM(2.5) was associated with increases of 0.7% (95%CI: 0.2%, 1.2%) in total skin diseases visits at lag 0–5 and 1.1% (95%CI: 0.6%, 1.7%) in dermatitis/eczema visits at lag 0–1, respectively. For PM(2.5), PM(10) and CO, stronger annual associations were typically observed in the high-pollution (2014) and low-pollution (2018/2019) years. For instance, a 10 μg/m(3) increase in PM(2.5) at lag 0–5 was associated with increases of 1.8% (95%CI: 1.0%, 2.6%) and 2.3% (95%CI: 0.4%, 4.3%) in total skin disease visits in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Our study emphasizes the necessity of controlling the potential health hazard of air pollutants on skin, although significant achievements in air quality control have been made in China.
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spelling pubmed-81511572021-05-27 Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Increased Emergency Room Visits for Skin Diseases in Beijing, China Wang, Wanzhou Zhang, Wenlou Zhao, Jingjing Li, Hongyu Wu, Jun Deng, Furong Ma, Qingbian Guo, Xinbiao Toxics Article Skin diseases have become a global concern. This study aims to evaluate the associations between ambient air pollution and emergency room visits for skin diseases under the background of improving air quality in China. Based on 45,094 cases from a general hospital and fixed-site monitoring environmental data from 2014–2019 in Beijing, China, this study used generalized additive models with quasi-Poisson regression to estimate the exposure–health associations at lag 0–1 to lag 0–7. PM(2.5) and NO(2) exposure were associated with increased emergency room visits for total skin diseases (ICD10: L00-L99). Positive associations of PM(2.5), PM(10), O(3) and NO(2) with dermatitis/eczema (ICD-10: L20–30), as well as SO(2) and NO(2) with urticaria (ICD-10: L50) visits were also found. For instance, a 10 μg/m(3) increase in PM(2.5) was associated with increases of 0.7% (95%CI: 0.2%, 1.2%) in total skin diseases visits at lag 0–5 and 1.1% (95%CI: 0.6%, 1.7%) in dermatitis/eczema visits at lag 0–1, respectively. For PM(2.5), PM(10) and CO, stronger annual associations were typically observed in the high-pollution (2014) and low-pollution (2018/2019) years. For instance, a 10 μg/m(3) increase in PM(2.5) at lag 0–5 was associated with increases of 1.8% (95%CI: 1.0%, 2.6%) and 2.3% (95%CI: 0.4%, 4.3%) in total skin disease visits in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Our study emphasizes the necessity of controlling the potential health hazard of air pollutants on skin, although significant achievements in air quality control have been made in China. MDPI 2021-05-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8151157/ /pubmed/34065905 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics9050108 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Wang, Wanzhou
Zhang, Wenlou
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Li, Hongyu
Wu, Jun
Deng, Furong
Ma, Qingbian
Guo, Xinbiao
Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Increased Emergency Room Visits for Skin Diseases in Beijing, China
title Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Increased Emergency Room Visits for Skin Diseases in Beijing, China
title_full Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Increased Emergency Room Visits for Skin Diseases in Beijing, China
title_fullStr Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Increased Emergency Room Visits for Skin Diseases in Beijing, China
title_full_unstemmed Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Increased Emergency Room Visits for Skin Diseases in Beijing, China
title_short Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Increased Emergency Room Visits for Skin Diseases in Beijing, China
title_sort short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and increased emergency room visits for skin diseases in beijing, china
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8151157/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34065905
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/toxics9050108
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