Effects of Exposure to Particles and Ozone on Hospital Admissions for Cardiorespiratory Diseases in SetúBal, Portugal

Almeida, Susana Marta; Silva, A. V.; Sarmento, S.

doi:10.1080/15287394.2014.887399

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“…These age groups were adopted for consistency with former studies in Portugal (Sarmento et al 2009;Almeida et al 2014). The studied causes of HA classified according to the World Health Organisation's International Statistical Classification of Diseases by the, 9th Revision (ICD-9) and 10th Revision (ICD-10) endorsed by the Forty-third World Health Assembly in May 1990, came into use in WHO Member States since 1994 (WHO 2014): all circulatory (ICD-9, 390-459; ICD-10, I00-I99), cardiac (ICD-9, 390-429; ICD-10, I30-I52), ischaemic heart (ICD-9, 410-414; ICD-10, I20-I25), stroke (ICD-9, 430-438; ICD-10, Fig.…”

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“…Links between air pollution, especially atmospheric particles and sulphur dioxide-SO 2 , and the number of hospital admissions have been established in studies in North America (Barnett 1997;Lipfert 1997;Middleton et al 2008;Pope et al 2004Pope et al , 2008Roemer et al 1998;Zanobetti and Schwartz 2005;Wilson et al 2004), South America (Lumley and Sheppard 2000;Roberts 2005), Asia (Cameron and Trivedi 1998;Luvsan et al 2012;Ritchie and Lehnen 2004), Australia (Hansen et al 2012) and Europe (Almeida et al 2014;Alves et al 2010;Freitas et al 2010;Pablo Dávila et al 2013;Pascal et al 2013;Neuberger et al 2007;Ayres-Sampaio et al 2014). However, still many efforts to clarify pollutionhealth associations are necessary, including the separation of the short-term and long-term health effects of individual air pollutants and those of complex pollutant mixtures.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…In Portugal, very few studies have analysed the acute effect of air pollutants on public health (Almeida et al , 2014Alves et al 2010;Freitas et al 2009). In this study, an attempt is made to find the shortterm associations between hospital admissions for diseases: all circulatory, cardiac, ischaemic heart, stroke, all respiratory diseases, asthma and air pollutants: CO, nitrogen monoxide-NO, NO 2 , SO 2 , O 3 , particles with aerodynamic equivalent diameter of 10 μm-PM 10 and particles with aerodynamic equivalent diameter of 2.5 μm-PM 2.5 , in the area of Lisbon, Portugal, for a 3-year period, from 2006 to 2008.…”

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Association between atmospheric pollutants and hospital admissions in Lisbon

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Ambient air pollution is recognised as one of the potential environmental risk factors causing health hazards to the exposed population, demonstrated in numerous previous studies. Several longitudinal, ecological and epidemiological studies have shown associations between outdoor levels of outdoor atmospheric pollutants and adverse health effects, especially associated with respiratory and cardiovascular hospital admissions. The aim of this work is to assess the influence of atmospheric pollutants over the hospital admissions in Lisbon, by Ordinary Least Squares Linear Regression. The pollutants (CO, NO, NO2, SO2, O3, PM10 and PM2.5) were obtained from 13 monitoring stations of the Portuguese Environmental Agency, which provide hourly observations. Hospital admission data were collected from the Central Administration of the Health System and were compiled by age: <15, 15-64, >64 years old. The study period was 2006-2008. Results showed significant positive associations between the following: (1) the pollutants CO, NO, NO2, SO2, PM10 and PM2.5 and circulatory diseases for ages between 15 and 64 years (0.5% hospital admissions (HA) increase with 10 μg m(-3) NO increase) and above 64 years (1.0% stroke admission increase with 10 μg m(-3) NO2 increase); (2) the pollutants CO, NO, NO2, SO2, PM10 and PM2.5 and respiratory diseases for ages below 15 years (up to 1.9% HA increase with 10 μg m(-3) pollutant increase); and (3) the pollutants NO, NO2 and SO2 and respiratory diseases for ages above 64 years (1.3% HA increase with 10 μg m(-3) CO increase).

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Section: Hospital Admissionsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Association between atmospheric pollutants and hospital admissions in Lisbon

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“…Air pollution can cause increasing hospital admissions due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, asthma attacks, acute bronchitis and lung function decline. Premature mortality and morbidity may be a result of exposure to polluted air [7][8][9][10][11]. In 2011 long term exposure to PM 2.5 was responsible for about 458 000 premature deaths in 40 European countries [12].…”

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Overall human mortality and morbidity due to exposure to air pollution

Samek

2016

Int J Occup Med Environ Health

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Objectives: Concentrations of particulate matter that contains particles with diameter ≤ 10 mm (PM 10 ) and diameter ≤ 2.5 mm (PM 2.5 ) as well as nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) have considerable impact on human mortality, especially in the cases when cardiovascular or respiratory causes are attributed. Additionally, they affect morbidity. An estimation of human mortality and morbidity due to the increased concentrations of PM 10 , PM 2.5 and NO 2 between the years 2005-2013 was performed for the city of Kraków, Poland. For this purpose the Air Quality Health Impact Assessment Tool (AirQ) software was successfully applied. Material and Methods: The Air Quality Health Impact Assessment Tool was used for the calculation of the total, cardiovascular and respiratory mortality as well as hospital admissions related to cardiovascular and respiratory diseases. Data on concentrations of PM 10 , PM 2.5 and NO 2 , which was obtained from the website of the Voivodeship Inspectorate for Environmental Protection (WIOS) in Kraków, was used in this study. Results: Total mortality due to exposure to PM 10 in 2005 was found to be 41 deaths per 100 000 and dropped to 30 deaths per 100 000 in 2013. Cardiovascular mortality was 2 times lower than the total mortality. However, hospital admissions due to respiratory diseases were more than an order of magnitude higher than the respiratory mortality. Conclusions: The calculated total mortality due to PM 2.5 was higher than that due to PM 10 . Air pollution was determined to have a significant effect on human health. The values obtained by the use of the AirQ software for the city of Kraków imply that exposure to polluted air can result in serious health problems.

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“…Previous studies have suggested that the presence of metal content (particularly water-soluble metal) in particulate matter (PM) can be considered a harmful component with repercussions into human health [1,4,10]. This relation between PM and human health has been well described by Pope [11,12] that showed, as a consequence of a steel mill closure in Utah valley, an association between the reduction in PM10 mass and changes on its Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s10967-016-4751-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.…”

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Source apportionment by positive matrix factorization on elemental concentration obtained in PM10 and biomonitors collected in the vicinities of a steelworks

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Wolterbeek

Reis

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J Radioanal Nucl Chem

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The objective of this study was to assess the impact of steelworks emissions in its vicinity through chemical element analysis. Two approaches were used: instrumental monitoring and biomonitoring using transplanted lichens. Element contents in filters and lichens were determined by k 0 -INAA and PIXE and sources identification was performed by the receptor model positive matrix factorization. PM10 data indicated that the steelworks has an important impact on the air quality, having several sources associated with its processes been identified. Lichen analyses showed that this impact decrease significantly with the distance to the factory.

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Effects of Exposure to Particles and Ozone on Hospital Admissions for Cardiorespiratory Diseases in SetúBal, Portugal

Cited by 57 publications

References 41 publications

Association between atmospheric pollutants and hospital admissions in Lisbon

Association between atmospheric pollutants and hospital admissions in Lisbon

Overall human mortality and morbidity due to exposure to air pollution

Source apportionment by positive matrix factorization on elemental concentration obtained in PM10 and biomonitors collected in the vicinities of a steelworks

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