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Published in: BMC Medicine 1/2023

Open Access 01-12-2023 | Air Pollutants | Research article

Short-term air pollution exposure associated with death from kidney diseases: a nationwide time-stratified case-crossover study in China from 2015 to 2019

Authors: Miao Cai, Jing Wei, Shiyu Zhang, Wei Liu, Lijun Wang, Zhengmin Qian, Hualiang Lin, Echu Liu, Stephen Edward McMillin, Yu Cao, Peng Yin

Published in: BMC Medicine | Issue 1/2023

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Abstract

Background

Long-term exposure to air pollution has been associated with the onset and progression of kidney diseases, but the association between short-term exposure to air pollution and mortality of kidney diseases has not yet been reported.

Methods

A nationally representative sample of 101,919 deaths from kidney diseases was collected from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention from 2015 to 2019. A time-stratified case-crossover study was applied to determine the associations. Satellite-based estimates of air pollution were assigned to each case and control day using a bilinear interpolation approach and geo-coded residential addresses. Conditional logistic regression models were constructed to estimate the associations adjusting for nonlinear splines of temperature and relative humidity.

Results

Each 10 µg/m3 increment in lag 0–1 mean concentrations of air pollutants was associated with a percent increase in death from kidney disease: 1.33% (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.57% to 2.1%) for PM1, 0.49% (95% CI: 0.10% to 0.88%) for PM2.5, 0.32% (95% CI: 0.08% to 0.57%) for PM10, 1.26% (95% CI: 0.29% to 2.24%) for NO2, and 2.9% (95% CI: 1.68% to 4.15%) for SO2. 

Conclusions

Our study suggests that short-term exposure to ambient PM1, PM2.5, PM10, NO2, and SO2 might be important environmental risk factors for death due to kidney diseases in China.
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Metadata
Title
Short-term air pollution exposure associated with death from kidney diseases: a nationwide time-stratified case-crossover study in China from 2015 to 2019
Authors
Miao Cai
Jing Wei
Shiyu Zhang
Wei Liu
Lijun Wang
Zhengmin Qian
Hualiang Lin
Echu Liu
Stephen Edward McMillin
Yu Cao
Peng Yin
Publication date
01-12-2023
Publisher
BioMed Central
Keyword
Air Pollutants
Published in
BMC Medicine / Issue 1/2023
Electronic ISSN: 1741-7015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-02734-9

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