ArticleBMJ open2024
Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and hospital admission burden in Scotland: 16 year prospective population cohort study.
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- Mega-Events, Air Pollution and Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Impact of air pollution on exacerbations of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases for the intensivist: a narrative review.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2026Review
- Parameterising the effect of human occupancy and kinetic energy on indoor air pollution.NPJ climate and atmospheric science · 2026Article
- Impact of air pollution and asthma on school attendance and educational attainment: a scoping review.BMJ open respiratory research · 2025Article
- Air Pollution and Effects of Tropospheric Ozone (OInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Review
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Abstract
objectivesAir pollution is considered a major threat for global health and is associated with various health outcomes. Previous research on long term exposure to ambient air pollution and health placed more emphasis on mortality rather than hospital admission outcomes and was characterised by heterogeneities in the size of effect estimates between studies, with less focus on mental/behavioural or infectious diseases outcomes. In this study, we investigated the association between long term exposure to ambient air pollution and all cause and cause specific hospital admissions.
designThis was a prospective cohort study.
settingIndividual level data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) were linked to yearly concentrations of four pollutants (nitrogen dioxide (NO
participantsThe study included 202 237 adult individuals aged ≥17 years. OUTCOME MEASURES: The associations between air pollution and all cause, cardiovascular, respiratory, infectious, mental/behavioural disorders and other cause hospital admissions were examined using multi-level, mixed effects, negative binomial regression.
resultsHigher exposure to NO
conclusionsThe results of this study support an association between long term (16 years) exposure to ambient air pollution and increased all cause and cause specific hospital admissions for both physical and mental/behavioural illnesses. The results suggest that interventions on air pollution through stricter environmental regulations could help ease the hospital care burden in Scotland in the long term.
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