ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2018
Estimates of the Global Burden of Ambient
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- Global, regional and national estimates of the burden of childhood asthma attributable to NOEClinicalMedicine · 2025Article
- Integrating indoor and outdoor nitrogen dioxide exposures in US homes nationally by ZIP code.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Biodiversity and childhood asthma: A nationwide retrospective birth cohort study in Japan.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Landscape of Aeroallergen Sensitization in Asia.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2025Review
- Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Identifies a Unique Macrophage Population in a Mouse Model of Ozone-induced Asthma Exacerbation.American journal of respiratory cell and molecular biology · 2025Article
- The Struggle Against Air Pollution in African Megacities and the Hidden Problems for the Estimation of the Burden of Disease.Global challenges (Hoboken, NJ) · 2025Article
- Culture media influences primary human bronchial epithelial cell morphology, differentiation status, and transcriptional response to ozone exposure.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2025Article
- Association of Annual Exposure to Air Pollution Mixture on Asthma Hospitalizations in the United States.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundAsthma is the most prevalent chronic respiratory disease worldwide, affecting 358 million people in 2015. Ambient air pollution exacerbates asthma among populations around the world and may also contribute to new-onset asthma.
objectivesWe aimed to estimate the number of asthma emergency room visits and new onset asthma cases globally attributable to fine particulate matter (
methodsWe used epidemiological health impact functions combined with data describing population, baseline asthma incidence and prevalence, and pollutant concentrations. We constructed a new dataset of national and regional emergency room visit rates among people with asthma using published survey data.
resultsWe estimated that 9–23 million and 5–10 million annual asthma emergency room visits globally in 2015 could be attributable to ozone and
conclusionsThese findings estimate the magnitude of the global asthma burden that could be avoided by reducing ambient air pollution. We also identified key uncertainties and data limitations to be addressed to enable refined estimation. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP3766.
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