ArticleWorld journal of pediatrics : WJP2022
Short-term effects of air pollution on respiratory diseases among young children in Wuhan city, China.
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- Association between atmospheric SO2 exposure and severity of respiratory infections in infants: a systematic review.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2026Pooled it
- Cardiopulmonary and Immune Effects of Environmental Particulate Exposures.Physiology (Bethesda, Md.) · 2026Review
- Environmental safety thresholds for children with asthma symptoms: a prospective study of multitemporal air pollution exposure and longitudinal trajectories.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Short-term traffic-related gaseous pollutant exposure is associated with childhood bronchopneumonia hospitalization: a 10-year time-series study from Guangzhou, China.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Short term effects of changes in air pollutant concentrations during peaks traffic hours on hospitalization for respiratory diseases.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exploring the association between pulmonary function and air pollution exposure in healthy children in Jinan, Shandong Province: based on a cross-sectional study.Translational pediatrics · 2025Article
- Correlation analysis between the prevalence of common respiratory pathogens and exposure to ambient air pollutants in Central China, 2014-2022.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Short-term effects of ambient ozone on pediatric pneumonia hospital admissions: a multi-city case-crossover study in China.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Health risks of exposure to air pollution in areas where coal-fired power plants are located: protocol for a scoping review.BMJ open · 2024Article
- PMInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Associations between air pollutant and pneumonia and asthma requiring hospitalization among children aged under 5 years in Ningbo, 2015-2017.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe high risks for childhood respiratory diseases are associated with exposure to ambient air pollution. However, there are few studies that have explored the association between air pollution exposure and respiratory diseases among young children (particularly aged 0-2 years) based on the entire population in a megalopolis.
methodsDaily hospital admission records were obtained from 54 municipal hospitals in Wuhan city, China. We included all children (aged 0-2 years) hospitalized with respiratory diseases between January 2017 and December 2018. Individual air pollution exposure assessment was used in Land Use Regression model and inverse distance weighted. Case-crossover design and conditional logistic regression models were adopted to estimate the hospitalization risk associated with air pollutants.
resultsWe identified 62,425 hospitalizations due to respiratory diseases, of which 36,295 were pneumonia. Particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 μm (PM
conclusionsAir pollution is associated with higher hospitalization risk for respiratory diseases, especially pneumonia, among young children, and the risk is related to gender, month age, season and residential location.
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