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ArticleChonnam medical journal2016

The Effects of Air Pollution on Ischemic Stroke Admission Rate.

Hossein Alimohammadi, Sara Fakhri, Hojjat Derakhshanfar, Seyed-Mostafa Hosseini-Zijoud, Saeed Safari, Hamid Reza Hatamabadi

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Article in Chonnam medical journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. Impact of desert dust storms, PMFrontiers in public health · 2023
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  7. Air Pollution and Ischaemic Stroke.Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology · 2022
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  8. Short-Term Effects of Low-Level Ambient Air NOInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  9. Differential expression of long non-coding RNAs in the hippocampus of mice exposed to PMEnvironmental science and pollution research international · 2022
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  14. Maternal Exposure to PMInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2018
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  16. Clinical effects of air pollution on the central nervous system; a review.Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Hossein AlimohammadiDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Sara FakhriDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Hojjat DerakhshanfarDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Seyed-Mostafa Hosseini-ZijoudSocial Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
Saeed SafariDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Hamid Reza HatamabadiSafety Promotion and Injury Prevention Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The present study aimed to determine the relationship between the level of air pollutants and the rate of ischemic stroke (IS) admissions to hospitals. In this retrospective cross-sectional study, stroke admissions (January-March 2012 and 2013) to an emergency department and air pollution and meteorological data were gathered. The relationship between air pollutant levels and hospital admission rates were evaluated using the generalize additive model. In all 379 patients with IS were referred to the hospital (52.5% male; mean age 68.2±13.3 years). Both transient (p<0.001) and long-term (p<0.001) rises in CO level increases the risk of IS. Increased weekly (p<0.001) and monthly (p<0.001) average O3 levels amplifies this risk, while a transient increase in NO2 (p<0.001) and SO2 (p<0.001) levels has the same effect. Long-term changes in PM10 (p<0.001) and PM2.5 (p<0.001) also increase the risk of IS. The findings showed that the level of air pollutants directly correlates with the number of stroke admissions to the emergency department.

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Air pollutantsPatient admissionStroke

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PMID26866000
PMCPMC4742610

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