PM10 Air Pollution and Acute Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Causes in Ostrava
Language English Country Czech Republic Media print
Document type Journal Article
PubMed
28160535
DOI
10.21101/cejph.a4538
PII: cejph.a4538
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- Keywords
- health risk assessment, hospital admissions, particulate matter, time series,
- MeSH
- Acute Disease MeSH
- Interrupted Time Series Analysis MeSH
- Child MeSH
- Adult MeSH
- Hospitalization statistics & numerical data MeSH
- Cardiovascular Diseases epidemiology MeSH
- Infant MeSH
- Air Pollutants adverse effects MeSH
- Middle Aged MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Adolescent MeSH
- Respiratory Tract Diseases epidemiology MeSH
- Infant, Newborn MeSH
- Particulate Matter adverse effects MeSH
- Weather MeSH
- Child, Preschool MeSH
- Industry MeSH
- Aged, 80 and over MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Environmental Exposure adverse effects MeSH
- Air Pollution adverse effects MeSH
- Check Tag
- Child MeSH
- Adult MeSH
- Infant MeSH
- Middle Aged MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Adolescent MeSH
- Male MeSH
- Infant, Newborn MeSH
- Child, Preschool MeSH
- Aged, 80 and over MeSH
- Aged MeSH
- Female MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Geographicals
- Czech Republic epidemiology MeSH
- Names of Substances
- Air Pollutants MeSH
- Particulate Matter MeSH
BACKGROUND AND AIM: The city of Ostrava and its surroundings belong to the most long-therm polluted areas in the Czech Republic and Europe. For identification of health risk, the World Health Organization recommends a theoretical estimation of increased short-term PM10 concentrations effect on hospital admissions for cardiac complaints based on a 0.6% increase per 10 µg.m-3 PM10 and 1.14% increase for respiratory causes. The goal of the present study is to verify the percentage increase of morbidity due to cardiovascular and respiratory causes, as per WHO recommendations for health risk assessment, in the population of Ostrava. METHOD: The input data include data on PM10 air pollution, meteorological data, the absolute number of hospital admissions for acute cardiovascular and respiratory diseases in the period 2010-2012. To examine the association between air pollution and health outcomes the time series Poisson regression adjusted for covariates was used. RESULTS: A significant relationship was found between the cardiovascular hospital admissions (percentage increase of 1.24% per 10 µg.m-3) and values of PM10 less than 150 µg.m-3 in the basic model, although after adjustment for other factors, this relationship was no longer significant. A significant relationship was also observed for respiratory causes of hospital admissions in the basic model. Contrary to cardiovascular hospitalization, the relationship between respiratory hospital admissions and PM10 values below 150 µg.m-3 (percentage increase of 1.52%) remained statistically significant after adjustment for other factors. CONCLUSIONS: The observed significant relationship between hospital admissions for respiratory causes was consistent with the results of large European and American studies.
Centre of Epidemiological Research Faculty of Medicine University of Ostrava Ostrava Czech Republic
Institute of Public Health in Ostrava Ostrava Czech Republic
Municipal Hospital Ostrava Ostrava Czech Republic
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