Exploring Possible Seasonal Trends in Mortality Rate in Relation to Age, Gender and Environmental Conditions in Kuwait: A Preliminary Analysis

Al-Rifaia, N.; Elmi, Abdirashid; Khan, Abdul Rehman

doi:10.24200/tjer.vol8iss1pp19-27

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“…A study conducted by Thalib and Al-Taiar [24] concluded that dust storms had a significant impact on asthma and respiratory hospital admissions. Al-Rifaia et al [37] and Al-Taiar and Thalib [5] showed that dust storms had little impact on short-term respiratory, cardiovascular or all-cause mortality.…”

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Health Impact Assessment Associated with Exposure to PM10 and Dust Storms in Kuwait

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Abstract:Little information is available on the assessment of health impact concerning the Middle Eastern dust storms and PM 10 concentration levels despite the aridity of the region and frequent dust storms occurring in this part of the world. A prospective study was conducted to determine the association between dust particles and morbidity and mortality rates for respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in Kuwait. Spearman and Pearson's correlations were used to identify such associations. Results revealed a significant correlation between dust storms, suspended dust and rising dust (p < 0.01). Correlation between the occurrence of respiratory and cardiovascular diseases and dust storms showed that PM 10 concentrations were significantly correlated with bronchial asthma at the 0.05 level (Pearson r = 0.292). Significant correlations at the 0.01 level were shown between bronchial asthma and both acute lower respiratory tract infection (r = 0.737) and acute upper respiratory tract infection (r = 0.839). Respiratory and cardiovascular mortality rates were both equal to 0.62 per 10,000 persons, each corresponding to 8.7% proportionate mortality rate. This study provides a good evidence of the consistent relationship between dust storm events, PM 10 concentration levels, and respiratory diseases.

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Health Impact Assessment Associated with Exposure to PM10 and Dust Storms in Kuwait

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“…One study measured ETS (Abdualrasool et al, 2018), 4 studies measured dust (Achilleos et al, 2019, Al-Rifaia et al, 2011, Al-Taiar and Thalib, 2014, Thalib and Al-Taiar, 2012; only 1 study did not found a significant correlation between exposure to dust and mortality, which contradict the findings in (Achilleos et al, 2019, Al-Taiar andThalib, 2014). 2 studies measured PM2.5 (Al-Hemoud et al, 2019b, Al-Hemoud et al, 2018; where the first one found that PM2.5 is have an effect on mortality correlated to Ischaemic heart disease and stroke; and morbidity correlated to respiratory problems respectively.…”

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“…Majority of the included 85 studies were non-epidemiological studies, only 8 studies were related to epidemiological studies, 4 on morbidity (Abdualrasool et al, 2018, Al-Hemoud et al, 2019b, Alsaber et al, 2020, Thalib and Al-Taiar, 2012 and 5 on mortality (Achilleos et al, 2019, Al-Hemoud et al, 2019b, Al-Hemoud et al, 2018, Al-Rifaia et al, 2011, (1 study assesses both morbidity, and mortality related to respiratory and cardiovascular and PM2.5 (Al-Hemoud et al, 2019b)), between the 5 mortality studies, only 1 study found no correlation between air pollution and mortality (Al-Rifaia et al, 2011). only 1 study assessed asthma which consider as major health problem in Kuwait (Khadadah, 2012), and it was from 1996-2000 to study dust effect (Thalib and Al-Taiar, 2012).…”

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Exposure to air pollution in epidemiological studies in Kuwait: A systematic review

Shehab

2024

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Objective To systematically review the epidemiological studies of human exposure to air pollution in Kuwait. Methods Specific keywords related to air pollution and health effects in Kuwait were systematically searched using PubMed and BASE search engines for published research in English language from the year 1990 up to June 2020. Non eligible studies were those which published in non-English studies, studies on animals, plants, exposure to pollutants other that air pollutants, studies related to oil fires caused by Iraqi invasion to Kuwait in 1991. After duplicates were removed, titles and abstracts of eligible studies were screened and full text of publications meeting the inclusion criteria was read. Non-epidemiological studies were included only to compare their numbers to the epidemiological studies, and to help in future studies. Results Total of 85 studies including epidemiological and non-epidemiological studies, only 8 of them found to be an epidemiological study, which 4 of them concerned with mortality and 3 with morbidity, and 1 with both morbidity and mortality. Two of these studies concern with respiratory disease, 1 of them concerned with atopic dermatitis and was the only study measured indoors (i.e. house), and 1 study concerned with rheumatoid arthritis. One study measured ETS, 4 studies measured dust, 2 studies measured PM10 and PM2.5, and 1 study measured NO2, SO2, O3, CO. All studies found that exposure to air pollution has adverse effect on health problems (i.e. respiratory problems, atopic dermatitis, rheumatoid arthritis) and mortality except one study found no significant correlation between exposure to air pollution (i.e. dust) and mortality. Conclusion Epidemiological studies related to human exposure to air pollution in Kuwait are underestimated and insufficient, there are extremely limited studies that cannot be compared to each other. Since currently Kuwait have many major constructions in major roads in and out the capital which alters the air pollution, adding to that the new study which found that the new current global epidemic namely coronavirus COVID-19 is correlated to air pollution (i.e. NO2), new researches need to be done measuring the different pollutants in both indoor and outdoor exposure examining different health problems, these researches need to be done during and after these circumstances for comparison.

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“…Previous pollution and health studies in Kuwait relied on large particulate matter (PM 10 ) [ 14 ], low visibility [ 15 ] and seasonal dust trends [ 16 ] as a proxies for air pollution, or respiratory hospital admissions as an upstream health outcome [ 17 , 18 ]. In this paper, we employed a previously developed model that estimated historically resolved fine particulate matter in the dusty environment of Kuwait, allowing us to more comprehensively assess its impact on mortality.…”

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Burden of fine air pollution on mortality in the desert climate of Kuwait

Alahmad

Achilleos

et al. 2023

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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Background Middle Eastern desert countries like Kuwait are known for intense dust storms and enormous petrochemical industries affecting ambient air pollution. However, local health authorities have not been able to assess the health impacts of air pollution due to limited monitoring networks and a lack of historical exposure data. Objective To assess the burden of PM2.5 on mortality in the understudied dusty environment of Kuwait. Methods We analyzed the acute impact of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) on daily mortality in Kuwait between 2001 and 2016. To do so, we used spatiotemporally resolved estimates of PM2.5 in the region. Our analysis explored factors such as cause of death, sex, age, and nationality. We fitted quasi-Poisson time-series regression for lagged PM2.5 adjusted for time trend, seasonality, day of the week, temperature, and relative humidity. Results There was a total of 70,321 deaths during the study period of 16 years. The average urban PM2.5 was estimated to be 46.2 ± 19.8 µg/m3. A 10 µg/m3 increase in a 3-day moving average of urban PM2.5 was associated with 1.19% (95% CI: 0.59, 1.80%) increase in all-cause mortality. For a 10 µg/m3 reduction in annual PM2.5 concentrations, a total of 52.3 (95% CI: 25.7, 79.1) deaths each year could be averted in Kuwait. That is, 28.6 (95% CI: 10.3, 47.0) Kuwaitis, 23.9 (95% CI: 6.4, 41.5) non-Kuwaitis, 9.4 (95% CI: 1.2, 17.8) children, and 20.9 (95% CI: 4.3, 37.6) elderly deaths each year. Impact Statement The overwhelming prevalence of devastating dust storms and enormous petrochemical industries in the Gulf and the Middle East has intensified the urgency to address air pollution and its detrimental health effects. Alarmingly, the region’s epidemiological research lags behind, hindered by a paucity of ground monitoring networks and historical exposure data. In response, we are harnessing the power of big data to generate predictive models of air pollution across time and space, providing crucial insights into the mortality burden associated with air pollution in this under-researched yet critically impacted area.

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Exploring Possible Seasonal Trends in Mortality Rate in Relation to Age, Gender and Environmental Conditions in Kuwait: A Preliminary Analysis

Cited by 7 publications

References 23 publications

Health Impact Assessment Associated with Exposure to PM10 and Dust Storms in Kuwait

Health Impact Assessment Associated with Exposure to PM10 and Dust Storms in Kuwait

Exposure to air pollution in epidemiological studies in Kuwait: A systematic review

Burden of fine air pollution on mortality in the desert climate of Kuwait

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