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Associations between ambient air pollutants and hospital admissions: more needs to be done
Deaths from air pollution in the UK are higher by a factor of 10 than from car crashes, 7 for drug-related deaths and 52 for murders, and yet awareness seems to be lacking in local government. We conducted an 18-year retrospective cohort study using routinely collected health care records from Ninew...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580915/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34590228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-16544-0 |
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author | Belch, Jill JF Fitton, Catherine Cox, Bianca Chalmers, James D |
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description | Deaths from air pollution in the UK are higher by a factor of 10 than from car crashes, 7 for drug-related deaths and 52 for murders, and yet awareness seems to be lacking in local government. We conducted an 18-year retrospective cohort study using routinely collected health care records from Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, and Perth Royal Infirmary, in Tayside, Scotland, UK, from 2000 to 2017. Hospitalisation events and deaths were linked to daily nitric oxides (NOX, NO, NO2), and particulate matter 10 (PM10) levels extracted from publicly available data over this same time period. Distributed lag models were used to estimate risk ratios for hospitalisation and mortality, adjusting for temperature, humidity, day of the week, month and public holiday. Nitric oxides and PM10 were associated with an increased risk of all hospital admissions and cardiovascular (CV) admissions on day of exposure to pollutant. This study shows a significant increase in all cause and CV hospital admissions, on high pollution days in Tayside, Scotland. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-16544-0. |
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spelling | pubmed-85809152021-11-15 Associations between ambient air pollutants and hospital admissions: more needs to be done Belch, Jill JF Fitton, Catherine Cox, Bianca Chalmers, James D Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Short Research and Discussion Article Deaths from air pollution in the UK are higher by a factor of 10 than from car crashes, 7 for drug-related deaths and 52 for murders, and yet awareness seems to be lacking in local government. We conducted an 18-year retrospective cohort study using routinely collected health care records from Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, and Perth Royal Infirmary, in Tayside, Scotland, UK, from 2000 to 2017. Hospitalisation events and deaths were linked to daily nitric oxides (NOX, NO, NO2), and particulate matter 10 (PM10) levels extracted from publicly available data over this same time period. Distributed lag models were used to estimate risk ratios for hospitalisation and mortality, adjusting for temperature, humidity, day of the week, month and public holiday. Nitric oxides and PM10 were associated with an increased risk of all hospital admissions and cardiovascular (CV) admissions on day of exposure to pollutant. This study shows a significant increase in all cause and CV hospital admissions, on high pollution days in Tayside, Scotland. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11356-021-16544-0. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-09-30 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8580915/ /pubmed/34590228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-16544-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Short Research and Discussion Article Belch, Jill JF Fitton, Catherine Cox, Bianca Chalmers, James D Associations between ambient air pollutants and hospital admissions: more needs to be done |
title | Associations between ambient air pollutants and hospital admissions: more needs to be done |
title_full | Associations between ambient air pollutants and hospital admissions: more needs to be done |
title_fullStr | Associations between ambient air pollutants and hospital admissions: more needs to be done |
title_full_unstemmed | Associations between ambient air pollutants and hospital admissions: more needs to be done |
title_short | Associations between ambient air pollutants and hospital admissions: more needs to be done |
title_sort | associations between ambient air pollutants and hospital admissions: more needs to be done |
topic | Short Research and Discussion Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580915/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34590228 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-16544-0 |
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