SynthesisEnvironment international2023
Joint effect of heat and air pollution on mortality in 620 cities of 36 countries.
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63 authors.
Massimo StafoggiaDepartment of Epidemiology, Lazio Region Health Service / ASL Roma 1, Via C. Colombo 112, 00147 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: m.stafoggia@deplazio.it.
Paola MichelozziDepartment of Epidemiology, Lazio Region Health Service / ASL Roma 1, Via C. Colombo 112, 00147 Rome, Italy.
Alexandra SchneiderInstitute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
Ben ArmstrongDepartment of Public Health Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Matteo ScortichiniDepartment of Epidemiology, Lazio Region Health Service / ASL Roma 1, Via C. Colombo 112, 00147 Rome, Italy.
Masna RaiInstitute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH), Neuherberg, Germany.
Souzana AchilleosDepartment of Primary Care and Population Health, University of Nicosia Medical School, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Barrak AlahmadDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Antonis AnalitisDepartment of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Christofer ÅströmDepartment of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden.
Michelle L BellSchool of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA.
Neville CallejaDirectorate for Health Information and Research, Malta.
Hanne Krage CarlsenSchool of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Gabriel CarrascoInstitute of Tropical Medicine "Alexander von Humboldt", Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru.
John Paul CauchiQueen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Micheline Dszs CoelhoDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Patricia M CorreaDepartment of Public Health, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile.
Magali H DiazDepartment of Environmental Health, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Alireza EntezariFaculty of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar 9617916487, Khorasan Razavi, Iran.
Bertil ForsbergDepartment of Public Health and Clinical Medicine, Umeå University, Sweden.
Rebecca M GarlandDepartment of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
Yue Leon GuoEnvironmental and Occupational Medicine, and Institute of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, National Taiwan University (NTU) and NTU Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
Yuming GuoDepartment of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Masahiro HashizumeDepartment of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Iulian H HolobacaFaculty of Geography, Babes-Bolay University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Carmen ÍñiguezDepartment of Statistics and Computational Research, Universitat de València, València, Spain.
Jouni J K JaakkolaCenter for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research (CERH), University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Haidong KanDepartment of Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Klea KatsouyanniDepartment of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Environmental Research Group, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Ho KimGraduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Jan KyselýInstitute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Eric LavigneSchool of Epidemiology & Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; Environmental Health Science and Research Bureau, Health Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
Whanhee LeeSchool of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven CT, USA.
Shanshan LiDepartment of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
Marek MaasikmetsEstonian Environmental Research Centre, Tallinn, Estonia.
Joana MadureiraDepartment of Environmental Health, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Porto, Portugal; EPIUnit - Instituto de Saúde Pública, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal; Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), Porto, Portugal.
Fatemeh MayvanehFaculty of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Hakim Sabzevari University, Sabzevar 9617916487, Khorasan Razavi, Iran.
Chris Fook Sheng NgDepartment of Global Health Policy, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Baltazar NunesDepartment of Epidemiology, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal.
Hans OrruDepartment of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
Nicolás V OrtegaDepartment of Public Health, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile.
Samuel OsorioDepartment of Environmental Health, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Alfonso D L PalomaresNorwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
Shih-Chun PanNational Institute of Environmental Health Science, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan.
Mathilde PascalSanté Publique France, Department of Environmental Health, French National Public Health Agency, Saint Maurice, France.
Martina S RagettliSwiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland.
Shilpa RaoNorwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.
Raanan RazBraun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Dominic RoyeClimate Research Foundation, Madrid, Spain; Spanish Consortium for Research on Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Spain.
Niilo RytiCenter for Environmental and Respiratory Health Research (CERH), University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
Paulo Hn SaldivaDepartment of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Evangelia SamoliDepartment of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Joel SchwartzDepartment of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Noah ScovronickGangarosa Department of Environmental Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, USA.
Francesco SeraDepartment of Public Health Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom; Department of Statistics, Computer Science and Applications "G. Parenti", University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
Aurelio TobiasInstitute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA), Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain.
Shilu TongSchool of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
César Dlc ValenciaDepartment of Environmental Health, National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Ana Maria Vicedo-CabreraInstitute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Aleš UrbanInstitute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic; Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.
Antonio GasparriniDepartment of Public Health Environments and Society, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
Susanne BreitnerIBE-Chair of Epidemiology, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany.
Francesca K De' DonatoDepartment of Epidemiology, Lazio Region Health Service / ASL Roma 1, Via C. Colombo 112, 00147 Rome, Italy.
Funding
Yale Clinical and Translational Science Award (U Component)UL1TR001863 · NCATS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI John H. Krystal, LUCILA OHNO-MACHADO · 2016 to 2026
$102.9MPilot Project ProgramP30ES019776 · NIEHS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI William Michael Caudle · 2013 to 2026
$22.6MMedical Research Council MR/R013349/1Medical Research Council MR/V034162/1NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001863NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES019776
Abstract
backgroundThe epidemiological evidence on the interaction between heat and ambient air pollution on mortality is still inconsistent.
objectivesTo investigate the interaction between heat and ambient air pollution on daily mortality in a large dataset of 620 cities from 36 countries.
methodsWe used daily data on all-cause mortality, air temperature, particulate matter ≤ 10 μm (PM
resultsWe analyzed 22,630,598 deaths. An increase in mean temperature from the 75
conclusionsSuggestive evidence of effect modification between air temperature and air pollutants on mortality during the warm period was found in a global dataset of 620 cities.
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Air PollutantsAir PollutionCitiesEnvironmental ExposureHot TemperatureNitrogen DioxideParticulate MatterAir PollutantsNitrogen DioxideParticulate MatterAir pollutionAir temperatureEffect modificationEpidemiologyMortality
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