ArticleEuropean journal of public health2021
Airborne pollen concentrations and daily mortality from respiratory and cardiovascular causes.
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- Chronic and infectious respiratory mortality and short-term exposures to four types of pollen taxa in older adults in Michigan, 2006-2017.BMC public health · 2025Article
- European pollen reanalysis, 1980-2022, for alder, birch, and olive.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Associations of pollen and cardiovascular disease morbidity in Atlanta during 1993-2018.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2024Article
- Impact of Global Climate Change on Pulmonary Health: Susceptible and Vulnerable Populations.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2023Review
- Pollen Exposure and Cardiopulmonary Health Impacts in Adelaide, South Australia.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Temporal Changes in Pollen Concentration Predict Short-Term Clinical Outcomes in Acute Coronary Syndromes.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022Article
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Abstract
We conducted a time-series analysis of the relations between daily levels of allergenic pollen and mortality in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area with 153 378 deaths; 9742 from respiratory and 57 402 from cardiovascular causes. Daily (average) pollen counts of alder, birch, mugwort and grass were measured. In quasi-Poisson regression analysis, abundant alder pollen increased the risk of non-accidental deaths with an adjusted cumulative mortality rate ratio (acMRR) of 1.10 (95% CI 1.01-1.19) and of deaths from respiratory-diseases with acMRR of 1.78 (95% CI 1.19-2.65). Abundant mugwort pollen increased cardiovascular mortality (1.41, 1.02-1.95). These findings identify an important global public health problem.
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