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COVID-19 transport restrictions in Ireland: impact on air quality and respiratory hospital admissions
AIM: Exposure to poor air quality is a well-established factor for exacerbation of respiratory system diseases (RSDs); whether air pollutants are a cause of the development of RSD, however, remains unclear. This study aimed to examine the relationship between COVID-19 transport restrictions and hosp...
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The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8299186/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34455179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.07.008 |
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author | Quintyne, K.I. Kelly, C. Sheridan, A. Kenny, P. O'Dwyer, M. |
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description | AIM: Exposure to poor air quality is a well-established factor for exacerbation of respiratory system diseases (RSDs); whether air pollutants are a cause of the development of RSD, however, remains unclear. This study aimed to examine the relationship between COVID-19 transport restrictions and hospital admissions because of RSD in Dublin city and county for 2020. STUDY DESIGN: This was a retrospective population-based cohort. METHODS: Admission data were collected from the Health Service Executive Hospital In-patient Enquiry. Daily count of hospital admissions with Dublin city and county address with primary diagnosis of RSD was performed. The daily air nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) data were obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). RESULTS: During the period of transport restrictions, there was a reduction in the annual mean NO(2) from 25 μg/m(3) to 17 μg/m(3) (P < 0.001), and decreases in hospital admissions for RSD were observed. Among the 9934 patient episodes included in this study, the mean age at admission was 61.5 years, 57.8% were female (n = 5744), and mean (standard deviation) length of stay was 7.5 (13.52) days. CONCLUSION: This study, using routinely gathered data, suggests that decreases in ambient NO(2) as related to COVID-19 transport restrictions were significantly associated with lower asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease admissions. |
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spelling | pubmed-82991862021-07-23 COVID-19 transport restrictions in Ireland: impact on air quality and respiratory hospital admissions Quintyne, K.I. Kelly, C. Sheridan, A. Kenny, P. O'Dwyer, M. Public Health Original Research AIM: Exposure to poor air quality is a well-established factor for exacerbation of respiratory system diseases (RSDs); whether air pollutants are a cause of the development of RSD, however, remains unclear. This study aimed to examine the relationship between COVID-19 transport restrictions and hospital admissions because of RSD in Dublin city and county for 2020. STUDY DESIGN: This was a retrospective population-based cohort. METHODS: Admission data were collected from the Health Service Executive Hospital In-patient Enquiry. Daily count of hospital admissions with Dublin city and county address with primary diagnosis of RSD was performed. The daily air nitrogen dioxide (NO(2)) data were obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). RESULTS: During the period of transport restrictions, there was a reduction in the annual mean NO(2) from 25 μg/m(3) to 17 μg/m(3) (P < 0.001), and decreases in hospital admissions for RSD were observed. Among the 9934 patient episodes included in this study, the mean age at admission was 61.5 years, 57.8% were female (n = 5744), and mean (standard deviation) length of stay was 7.5 (13.52) days. CONCLUSION: This study, using routinely gathered data, suggests that decreases in ambient NO(2) as related to COVID-19 transport restrictions were significantly associated with lower asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease admissions. The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-09 2021-07-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8299186/ /pubmed/34455179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.07.008 Text en © 2021 The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Quintyne, K.I. Kelly, C. Sheridan, A. Kenny, P. O'Dwyer, M. COVID-19 transport restrictions in Ireland: impact on air quality and respiratory hospital admissions |
title | COVID-19 transport restrictions in Ireland: impact on air quality and respiratory hospital admissions |
title_full | COVID-19 transport restrictions in Ireland: impact on air quality and respiratory hospital admissions |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 transport restrictions in Ireland: impact on air quality and respiratory hospital admissions |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 transport restrictions in Ireland: impact on air quality and respiratory hospital admissions |
title_short | COVID-19 transport restrictions in Ireland: impact on air quality and respiratory hospital admissions |
title_sort | covid-19 transport restrictions in ireland: impact on air quality and respiratory hospital admissions |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8299186/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34455179 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.07.008 |
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