Estimation of Short-term Mortality and Morbidity Attributed to Fine Particulate Matter in the Ambient Air of Eight Iranian Cities

Kermani, Majid; Shahsavani, Abbas; Dowlati, Mohsen; Asl, Farshad Bahrami; Karimzadeh, Sima; Jokandan, Sevda Fallah; Aghaei, Mina; Kakavandi, Babak; Rastegarimehr, Babak; Ghorbani-Kalkhajeh, Sasan; Tabibi, Ramin

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“…This study aims to assess the effects of SO 2 and PM 10 concentrations on the number of daily hospital admissions for hypertensive cardiovascular diseases (HCD) in a highly polluted city of Iran, Isfahan ( Kermani et al, 2018 ), from March 2010 to March 2012, using a large-scale study database ( Rabiei et al, 2017 ) within a Negative Binomial and Poisson regression models framework using multiple lag structures. We also examined the stability and robustness of the effect estimates after adjusting for other pollutants simultaneously (CO, NO 2 , O 3 , and SO 2 /PM 10 ) employing multi-pollutant models.…”

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Effects of sulfur dioxide and particulate matter pollution on hospital admissions for hypertensive cardiovascular disease: A time series analysis

Nouri

Taheri²,

Ziaddini³

et al. 2023

Front. Physiol.

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Background and aims: Air pollution is a major environmental risk factor and the leading cause of disease burden with detrimental effects on cardiovascular systems. Cardiovascular diseases are predisposed by various risk factors, including hypertension, as the most important modifiable risk factor. However, there is a lack of sufficient data concerning the impact of air pollution on hypertension. We sought to study the associations of short-term exposure to Sulfur dioxide (SO2) and particulate matter (PM10) with the number of daily hospital admissions of hypertensive cardiovascular diseases (HCD).Methods: All hospitalized patients between March 2010 to March 2012 were recruited with the final diagnosis of HCD based on the International Classification of Diseases 10 (codes: I10-I15) from 15 hospitals in Isfahan, one of the most polluted cities in Iran. The 24-hour average concentrations of pollutants were obtained from 4 monitoring stations. In addition to single- and two-pollutant models, we used Negative Binomial and Poisson models with covariates of holidays, dew point, temperature, wind speed, and extracted latent factors of other pollutants controlling for multi-collinearity to examine the risk for hospital admissions for HCD affected by SO2 and PM10 exposures in the multi-pollutant model.Results: A total of 3132 hospitalized patients (63% female) with a mean (standard deviation) age of 64.96 (13.81) were incorporated in the study. The mean concentrations of SO2 and PM10 were 37.64 μg/m3 and 139.08 μg/m3, respectively. Our findings showed that a significantly increased risk of HCD-induced hospital admission was detected for a 10 μg/m3 increase in the 6-day and 3-day moving average of SO2 and PM10 concentrations in the multi-pollutant model with a percent change of 2.11% (95% confidence interval: 0.61 to 3.63%) and 1.19% (0.33 to 2.05%), respectively. This finding was robust in all models and did not vary by gender (for SO2 and PM10) and season (for SO2). However, people aged 35-64 and 18-34 years were vulnerable to SO2 and PM10 exposure-triggered HCD risk, respectively.Conclusions: This study supports the hypothesis of the association between short-term exposure to ambient SO2 and PM10 and the number of hospital admissions due to HCD.

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Effects of sulfur dioxide and particulate matter pollution on hospital admissions for hypertensive cardiovascular disease: A time series analysis

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Taheri²,

Ziaddini³

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“…Relative risk (RR) is an influential factor in evaluating the health effects of air pollutants and principally represents the probability of experiencing negative health impacts that occur due to a higher level of air pollution (Amoatey et al, 2020; WHO, 2016). In other words, RR is the ratio of the probability of the event when exposed to air pollution to the probability of the event when not exposed to air pollution (Kermani et al, 2018). The AirQ + suggests RR values based on defined formulas or ranges of values available from studies and meta-analysis for concentrations below 40 μg/m 3 (WHO, 2019).…”

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The Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on climate change and air quality: four country case studies

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Non-technical summary. To decrease the negative impacts of the coronavirus outbreak on human health, governments have implemented wide-ranging control measures. Moreover, they were urged to tackle a new challenge in energy policies to supply a new form of demand derived from new lifestyles of citizens and different energy consumption patterns. This article investigates the impacts of these changes on climate change and human health (due to air pollution) as a challenge for both citizens and governments in four countries: Colombia, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal. Technical summary. The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been associated with global challenges in both energy supply and demand. Numerous articles have discussed the potential benefits of COVID-19 for our planet to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollutants. By bringing the emissions from the energy production together with the air quality indicators, this article studies the impact on climate change and human health due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the consequent changes in energy policies of governments as well as lifestyles in different societies. This study shows that in spite of having a reduction, the GHG emissions might go back to previous or higher levels if governments do not see this pandemic as an opportunity to promote the use of renewable energies, which are becoming cheaper than non-renewables. Additionally, lower energy demand and less anthropogenic activities do not necessarily result in lower GHG emissions from energy production. Our results highlight the need for revising the policies and decisions of both governments and citizens, as temporary reductions in the levels of energy demand and air pollutants can easily be counterbalanced by adverse effects, known as the 'rebound effect.' Social media summary. How did the changes in energy consumption and production due to COVID-19 affect climate change and human health in different countries? 10Pouya Samani et al.

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“…Recent studies have reported on the adverse health impacts due to PM 2.5 exposure (31)(32)(33). In order to better understand the impact of particulate matter on inducing several diseases in human beings, the mechanism shall be briefly described.…”

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“…Similarly, Kermani et al, estimated the short-term effects of ambient air pollution in Iran. They found that PM 2.5 had the most significant impact on the health of 19,048,000 residents in eight Iranian cities, causing total mortality of 5,670 out of 87,907 total deaths during a one-year time-period in 2012 (31). Borsi et al (18), recently studied the health endpoints due to the exposure to several criteria air pollutants (ozone, PM 10 , SO 2 , and NO 2 ) in Ahvaz city in Iran using AirQ+ model.…”

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Air pollution burden of disease over highly populated states in the Middle East

Isaifan

2023

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundRecent epidemiological research has proven that air pollution triggers the risk of morbidity and mortality due to respiratory and cardiovascular-related diseases. More specifically, fine particulate matter with a diameter of <2.5 μm (PM2.5) can penetrate deeply into the lung and bloodstream, causing critical adverse effects on human health.ObjectiveIt is found that there is inadequate published research related to the health impact of ambient air pollution in the Middle East region. Some states are well studied, while others are not. This work aims to evaluate the health impact of long-term exposure to PM2.5 in the nine most populated countries in the Middle East region, with a total population of about 363 million (in 2012).MethodsIn this study, the human health impacts in terms of total mortality and the estimated attributable proportion (AP) due to long-term exposure to ambient PM2.5 were estimated using the World Health Organization method and software (AirQ+).ResultsIn 2012, the annual median PM2.5 concentrations ranged from 34 μg/m3 in Turkey and Syria to 108 μg/m3 in Saudi Arabia. The total estimated mortalities in the nine most populated countries in the Middle East due to long-term exposure to fine particulate matter was about 152,925 (half of which were residents in Egypt). Moreover, the relative risk (RR) was the highest for Saudi Arabia at 1.8031 and the lowest for Turkey and Syria at a value of 1.1553. The highest AP (central value) was 44.5% in Saudi Arabia, while the lowest was 13.4% in Turkey and Syria.ConclusionsThe results indicate a significant impact of air pollution due to long-term exposure to fine particles resulting in early mortality. This urges the collaboration between the governments and different sectors to adopt stringent regulations to control the anthropogenic sources related to traffic and industrial emissions in the Middle East in order to reduce the health burden of air pollution.

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Estimation of Short-term Mortality and Morbidity Attributed to Fine Particulate Matter in the Ambient Air of Eight Iranian Cities

Cited by 13 publications

References 28 publications

Effects of sulfur dioxide and particulate matter pollution on hospital admissions for hypertensive cardiovascular disease: A time series analysis

Effects of sulfur dioxide and particulate matter pollution on hospital admissions for hypertensive cardiovascular disease: A time series analysis

The Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on climate change and air quality: four country case studies

Air pollution burden of disease over highly populated states in the Middle East

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