ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2014
Associations of fine particulate matter species with mortality in the United States: a multicity time-series analysis.
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- Air pollution seasons in urban moderate climate areas through big data analytics.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Public Health Benefits From Improved Identification of Severe Air Pollution Events With Geostationary Satellite Data.GeoHealth · 2024Article
- Long-Term Exposure to PMToxics · 2023Article
- Monitoring vs. modeled exposure data in time-series studies of ambient air pollution and acute health outcomes.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2023Article
- Applying principal component pursuit to investigate the association between source-specific fine particulate matter and myocardial infarction hospitalizations in New York City.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2023Article
- A dependent Bayesian Dirichlet process model for source apportionment of particle number size distribution.Environmetrics · 2023Article
- The impact of monthly air pollution exposure and its interaction with individual factors: Insight from a large cohort study of comprehensive hospitalizations in Guangzhou area.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Short-term exposure to fine particulate matter constituents and mortality: case-crossover evidence from 32 counties in China.Science China. Life sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundEpidemiological studies have examined the association between PM2.5 and mortality, but uncertainty remains about the seasonal variations in PM2.5-related effects and the relative importance of species.
objectivesWe estimated the effects of PM2.5 species on mortality and how infiltration rates may modify the association.
methodsUsing city-season specific Poisson regression, we estimated PM2.5 effects on approximately 4.5 million deaths for all causes, cardiovascular disease (CVD), myocardial infarction (MI), stroke, and respiratory diseases in 75 U.S. cities for 2000-2006. We added interaction terms between PM2.5 and monthly average species-to-PM2.5 proportions of individual species to determine the relative toxicity of each species. We combined results across cities using multivariate meta-regression, and controlled for infiltration.
resultsWe estimated a 1.18% (95% CI: 0.93, 1.44%) increase in all-cause mortality, a 1.03% (95% CI: 0.65, 1.41%) increase in CVD, a 1.22% (95% CI: 0.62, 1.82%) increase in MI, a 1.76% (95% CI: 1.01, 2.52%) increase in stroke, and a 1.71% (95% CI: 1.06, 2.35%) increase in respiratory deaths in association with a 10-μg/m3 increase in 2-day averaged PM2.5 concentration. The associations were largest in the spring. Silicon, calcium, and sulfur were associated with more all-cause mortality, whereas sulfur was related to more respiratory deaths. County-level smoking and alcohol were associated with larger estimated PM2.5 effects.
conclusionsOur study showed an increased risk of mortality associated with PM2.5, which varied with seasons and species. The results suggest that mass alone might not be sufficient to evaluate the health effects of particles.
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