ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2010
Air pollution and emergency department visits for otitis media: a case-crossover study in Edmonton, Canada.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Associations between Particulate Matter and Otitis Media in Children: A Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Pooled it
- Air Pollution and Otitis Media in Children: A Systematic Review of Literature.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Pooled it
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- Fluctuations in emergency department visits related to acute otitis media are associated with extreme meteorological conditions.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Particular matter influences the incidence of acute otitis media in children.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Association between Meniere's disease and air pollution in South Korea.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Impact of air pollution on benign paroxysmal positional vertigo incidence: a retrospective study of the citizens of Seoul, South Korea.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2021Article
- Exposure to acute air pollution and risk of bronchiolitis and otitis media for preterm and term infants.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2018Article
- Associations of mobile source air pollution during the first year of life with childhood pneumonia, bronchiolitis, and otitis media.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2018Article
- Air pollution influences the incidence of otitis media in children: A national population-based study.PloS one · 2018Article
- Meteorological factors, air pollutants, and emergency department visits for otitis media: a time series study.International journal of biometeorology · 2017Article
- Pediatric emergency department visits and ambient Air pollution in the U.S. State of Georgia: a case-crossover study.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2016Article
- Pediatric Emergency Visits and Short-Term Changes in PM2.5 Concentrations in the U.S. State of Georgia.Environmental health perspectives · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundOtitis media (OM) is one of the most common early childhood infections, resulting in an enormous economic burden to the health care system through unscheduled doctor visits and antibiotic prescriptions.
objectivesThe objective of this study was to investigate the potential association between ambient air pollution exposure and emergency department (ED) visits for OM. MATERIALS AND
methodsTen years of ED data were obtained from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and linked to levels of air pollution: carbon monoxide (CO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide, and particulate matter (PM) of median aerometric diameter < or = 10 and 2.5 pm (PM10 and PM2.5 respectively). A time-stratified case-crossover technique was applied to analyze the associations between ambient air pollution and health outcomes. Conditional logistic regression analysis with the subject's identification number as a stratum variable was used to obtain odds ratios (ORs) and their corresponding 95% confidence intervals after adjustment for meteorological factors.
resultsWe based the analysis on 14,527 ED visits for OM over 10 years in children 1-3 years of age. We observed statistically significant positive associations between ED visits for OM and interquartile increases in CO and NO2 levels after adjusting for ambient temperature and relative humidity. We observed the strongest associations (expressed by ORs) in the warmer months (April-September) in girls and all patients for exposure to CO and NO2, and in boys for exposure to CO, for 2 days before an OM ED visit.
conclusionsThese results support the hypothesis that ED visits for OM are associated with ambient air pollution.
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