Association between air pollution and upper respiratory tract infection in hospital outpatients aged 0–14 years in Hefei, China: a time series study

Li, Y.R.; Xiao, Changchun; Li, J.; Tang, Jing; Geng, Xiya; Cui, Longjiang; Zhai, Jinxia

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2017.12.006

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“…A similar association is also reported in other studies from developing countries [5,8,11,26]. Past studies routinely indicate that the combustion of solid fuels emits many toxic pollutants and young children quickly get exposed to these toxic pollutants and in turn, suffer from adverse health outcomes [9,10,12,14,25,30,31].…”

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confidence: 84%

Associations between Indoor Air Pollution and Acute Respiratory Infections among Under-Five Children in Afghanistan: Do SES and Sex Matter?

Rana¹,

Uddin²,

Peltier³

et al. 2019

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Background: Low-income families often depend on fuels such as wood, coal, and animal dung for cooking. Such solid fuels are highly polluting and are a primary source of indoor air pollutants (IAP). We examined the association between solid fuel use (SFU) and acute respiratory infection (ARI) among under-five children in Afghanistan and the extent to which this association varies by socioeconomic status (SES) and gender. Materials and Methods: This is a cross-sectional study based on de-identified data from Afghanistan’s first standard Demographic and Health Survey conducted in 2015. The sample consists of ever-married mothers with under-five children in the household (n=27,565). We used mixed-effect Poisson regression models with robust error variance accounting for clustering to examine the associations between SFU and ARI among under-five children after adjusting for potential confounders. We also investigated potential effect modification by SES and sex. Additional analyses were conducted using an augmented measure of the exposure to IAP accounting for both SFU and the location of cooking/kitchen (High Exposure, Moderate, and No Exposure). Results: Around 70% of households reported SFU, whereas the prevalence of ARI was 17.6%. The prevalence of ARI was higher in children living in households with SFU compared to children living in households with no SFU (adjusted prevalence ratio [aPR]= 1.10; 95%CI: 0.98, 1.23). We did not observe any effect modification by SES or child sex. When using the augmented measure of exposure incorporating the kitchen’s location, children highly exposed to IAP had a higher prevalence of ARI compared to unexposed children (aPR 1.17; 95% CI: 1.03, 1.32). SES modified this association with the strongest associations observed among children from the middle wealth quintile. Conclusion: The findings have significant policy implications and suggest that ARI risk in children may be reduced by ensuring clean cookstove as well as clean fuels and acting on the socio-environmental pathways.

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confidence: 84%

Associations between Indoor Air Pollution and Acute Respiratory Infections among Under-Five Children in Afghanistan: Do SES and Sex Matter?

Rana¹,

Uddin²,

Peltier³

et al. 2019

Preprint

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“…In addition, Xia et al (2017) studied the association between different types of air pollution and respiratory hospitalization and found that short-term exposure of PM 2.5 was positively correlated with the number of hospitalizations for acute respiratory infections. Similarly, another four studies also supported a significant positive correlation between PM 2.5 and the number of hospitalizations for URTI and LRTI (Belleudi et al, 2010;Li et al, 2018;Liu et al, 2019b;Zhang D. et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 74%

The Impact of PM2.5 on the Host Defense of Respiratory System

Yang

Cheng

Tang

2020

Front. Cell Dev. Biol.

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“…So it can be seen that NO2, CO, and SO2 influence the ARI incidence in Pontianak. -3,952 -0,982 0,3303 R 2 = 0,4671 F-statistik = 10,34 p-value = 3,73 × 10 -7 Li et al (2018) found that the increasing number of ARI among children aged 0-14 years in Heifei was the effect of short-term exposure to air pollution, especially NO2 as the main air pollutant that affected. This caused an increase the number of hospital visits due to ARI.…”

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confidence: 90%

The Effect of Air Quality on the Incidence of Acute Respiratory Infection (Ari) in Pontianak City

Palureng¹,

Syafei²,

Assomadi³

et al. 2020

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The Regional Health Office of Pontianak City stated that in 2017, acute respiratory infection (ARI) was the most common disease in the community with 83,128 cases, highest incindence in West Kalimantan. Air is the transmission medium of ARI. The incidence of ARI increases with population growth which can be a source of air pollution due to the many activities. This study aimed to determine the effect of air quality and the effect of the season on the incidence of ARI disease in Pontianak and policies that can be established by relevant government agencies to deal with ARI. The research used secondary data, consisted of air quality and ARI incidence data. The determination was analyzed using multiple linear regression statistical methods using the RStudio software application. The results found that air quality affected 46.71% of the ARI incidence in Pontianak. Influential pollutants are NO2, SO2, and CO2. Analysis of the effect of the season showed that the air quality during the rainy season affected 65.76%, while in the dry season affected 22.67% of the ARI incidence in Pontianak. So to reduce the incidence of ARI in Pontianak, the action that we can take is by improving the air quality.

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Association between air pollution and upper respiratory tract infection in hospital outpatients aged 0–14 years in Hefei, China: a time series study

Cited by 75 publications

References 24 publications

Associations between Indoor Air Pollution and Acute Respiratory Infections among Under-Five Children in Afghanistan: Do SES and Sex Matter?

Associations between Indoor Air Pollution and Acute Respiratory Infections among Under-Five Children in Afghanistan: Do SES and Sex Matter?

The Impact of PM2.5 on the Host Defense of Respiratory System

The Effect of Air Quality on the Incidence of Acute Respiratory Infection (Ari) in Pontianak City

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