The effects of indoor air pollution from solid fuel use on cognitive function among middle-aged and older population in China

Luo, Yanan; Zhong, Yijing; Pang, Lihua; Zhao, Yihao; Liang, Richard; Zheng, Xiaoying

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142460

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“…This was much lesser than the previous studies conducted in similar settings. [19][20][21] Middle-aged and older adults exposed to indoor air pollution had significantly higher decline in the cognitive function score (composite score including the object naming, orientation, arithmetic function, memory, and executive function) even after adjusting for potential individual-and household-level confounders. Similar finding was emphasized by other research works from India and other low middle-income settings.…”

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Association between indoor air pollution and cognitive function among nationally representative sample of middle‐aged and older adults in India—A multilevel modelling approach

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World Health Organisation (WHO) has estimated that around nine out of ten individuals breathe polluted air globally. 1 Air pollution is one of the man-made disasters, having a significant impact on human's daily life. 2 It has a deleterious effect on the individuals' physical health and mental well-being. 3 Air pollution is the fifth leading cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for 6.4 million deaths in the year 2015. 4 Out of these, nearly 2.8 million deaths occur due to indoor air pollution, that is, household pollution as a result of solid fuel usage. 4 Indoor air pollution is an important determinant for large spectrum of respiratory diseases ranging from acute and chronic respiratory infections to cancers of the lungs and upper respiratory tract. [5][6][7][8] Women and children are widely exposed to indoor air pollution, as they spend maximum time at home. 9 Indoor air pollution also extends its impact on the natural history of several other cardiovascular diseases, low birth weight, stillbirths among pregnant women, exacerbation of asthma and tuberculosis, cataract, and blindness. 10,11 These effects are tailored down to inhalation of the liberated sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, polycyclic aromatics and particulate matter. 9

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Association between indoor air pollution and cognitive function among nationally representative sample of middle‐aged and older adults in India—A multilevel modelling approach

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“…The number of people over 60 years old has increased rapidly from 178 million in 2010 to 260 million in 2020, increasing from 13.3% of the total population in 2010 to 18.7% of the total population in 2020. Luo et al ( 92 ) clearly state that long-term exposure to air pollution would damage mental abilities and episodic memory among middle-aged and old adults in China. Woodward and Levine ( 93 ) also indicate that older adults, accompanied by decreased cardiovascular function, experience higher mortality risks due to exposure to air pollution.…”

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How Air Quality Affect Health Industry Stock Returns: New Evidence From the Quantile-on-Quantile Regression

Liu

Wang

Xiao

2021

Front. Public Health

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This paper discusses the asymmetric effect of air quality (AQ) on stock returns (SR) in China's health industry through the quantile-on-quantile (QQ) regression method. Compared to prior literature, our study provides the following contributions. Government intervention, especially industrial policy, is considered a fresh and essential component of analyzing frameworks in addition to investors' physiology and psychology. Next, because of the heterogeneous responses from different industries to AQ, industrial heterogeneity is thus considered in this paper. In addition, the QQ method examines the effect of specific quantiles between variables and does not consider structural break and temporal lag effects. We obtain the following empirical results. First, the coefficients between AQ and SR in the health service and health technology industries change from positive to negative as AQ deteriorates. Second, AQ always positively influences the health business industry, but the values of the coefficients are larger in good air. In addition, different from other industries, the coefficients in the health equipment industry are negative, but the values of the coefficients change with AQ. The conclusions provide important references for investors and other market participants to avoid biased decisions due to poor AQ and pay attention to government industrial policies.

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“…Although smoking and drinking are relatively rare among pregnant women in China [25], due to the influence of traditional Chinese culture and healthy pregnancy propaganda, the failure to control these two confounding factors may lead to a potential bias in this study. According to the relevant studies, because of the use of solid fuels [40] and more frequent cooking duties in the home [41], the indoor air pollution exposure of women in Chinese households may be different from the outdoor air pollution concentration, which may affect the interpretation of the relationship between the air pollutants and adverse pregnancy outcomes in this study.…”

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The Association between Preterm Birth and Ambient Air Pollution Exposure in Shiyan, China, 2015–2017

Chen

Ren

Liu

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Shortening of the gestational duration has been found associated with ambient air pollution exposure. However, the critical exposure windows of ambient air pollution for gestational duration remain inconsistent, and the association between ambient air pollution and early term births (ETB, 37 to 38 weeks) has rarely been studied relative to preterm births (PTB, 28–37 weeks). A time-series study was conducted in Shiyan, a medium-sized city in China. Birth information was collected from the Shiyan Maternity and Child Health Hospital, and 13,111 pregnant women who gave birth between 2015 and 2017 were included. Data of the concentrations of air pollutants, including PM10, PM2.5, NO2, and SO2 and meteorological data, were collected in the corresponding gestational period. The Cox regression analysis was performed to estimate the relationship between ambient air pollution exposure and the risk of preterm birth after controlling the confounders, including maternal age, education, Gravidity, parity, fetal gender, and delivery mode. Very preterm birth (VPTB, 28–32 weeks) as a subtype of PTB was also incorporated in this study. The risk of VPTB and ETB was positively associated with maternal ambient air pollution exposure, and the correlation of gaseous pollutants was stronger than particulate matter. With respect to exposure windows, the critical trimester of air pollutants for different adverse pregnancy outcomes was different. The exposure windows of PM10, PM2.5, and SO2 for ETB were found in the third trimester, with HRs (hazard ratios) of 1.06 (95%CI: 1.04, 1.09), 1.07 (95%CI: 1.04, 1.11), and 1.28 (95%CI: 1.20, 1.35), respectively. However, for NO2, the second and third trimesters exhibited similar results, the HRs reaching 1.10 (95%CI: 1.03, 6.17) and 1.09 (95%CI: 1.03,1.15), respectively. This study extends and strengthen the evidence for a significant correlation between the ambient air pollution exposure during pregnancy and the risk of not only PTB but, also, ETB. Moreover, our findings suggest that the exposure windows during pregnancy vary with different air pollutants and pregnancy outcomes.

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The effects of indoor air pollution from solid fuel use on cognitive function among middle-aged and older population in China

Cited by 90 publications

References 29 publications

Association between indoor air pollution and cognitive function among nationally representative sample of middle‐aged and older adults in India—A multilevel modelling approach

Association between indoor air pollution and cognitive function among nationally representative sample of middle‐aged and older adults in India—A multilevel modelling approach

How Air Quality Affect Health Industry Stock Returns: New Evidence From the Quantile-on-Quantile Regression

The Association between Preterm Birth and Ambient Air Pollution Exposure in Shiyan, China, 2015–2017

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