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20-06-2023 | Air Pollutants | Original Article

The impact of ambient air pollutants on childhood respiratory system disease and the resulting disease burden: a time-series study

Authors: Wenbin Shen, Xue Li, Qingfeng Fang, Guoao Li, Wei Xiao, Yueyang Wu, Jianjun Liu, Wenlei Hu, Huanhuan Lu, Fen Huang

Published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health | Issue 8/2023

Abstract

Purpose

The effects of air pollution on human health have long been a hot topic of research. For respiratory diseases, a large number of studies have proved that air pollution is one of the main causes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the risk of hospitalization of children with respiratory system diseases (CRSD) caused by six pollutants (PM_2.5, PM₁₀, NO₂, SO₂, CO, and O₃) in Hefei City, and further calculate the disease burden.

Method

In the first stage, the generalized additive models were combined with the distributed lag non-linear models to evaluate the impact of air pollution on the inpatients for CRSD in Hefei. In the second stage, this study used the cost-of-illness approach to calculate the attributable number of hospitalizations and the extra disease burden.

Result

Overall, all the six kinds of pollutants had the strongest effects on CRSD inpatients within lag10 days. SO₂ and CO caused the highest and lowest harm, respectively, and the RR values were SO₂ (lag0-5): 1.1 20 (1.053, 1.191), and CO (lag0-6): 1.002 (1.001, 1.003). During the study period (January 1, 2014 to December 30, 2020), the 7-year cumulative burden of disease was 36.19 million CNY under the WHO air pollution standards.

Conclusion

In general, we found that six air pollutants were risk factors for CRSD in Hefei City, and create a huge burden of disease.

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Title: The impact of ambient air pollutants on childhood respiratory system disease and the resulting disease burden: a time-series study
Authors: Wenbin Shen
Xue Li
Qingfeng Fang
Guoao Li
Wei Xiao
Yueyang Wu
Jianjun Liu
Wenlei Hu
Huanhuan Lu
Fen Huang
Publication date: 20-06-2023
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Air Pollutants
Published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health / Issue 8/2023
Print ISSN: 0340-0131
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1246
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-023-01991-8

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