The Health of Children and Outdoor Air Pollution

Influence of Asian dust storms on daily acute myocardial infarction hospital admissions

“…The increase in industrial pollutants contained in the dust combined with intensified desertification in China has caused longer lasting and more frequent ADS events. Dust plumes blowing out of the Gobi Desert pass over China, Korea, and Japan, collectively one of the highest population density areas in the world, leading to higher medical care expenditures for conditions such as asthma and respiratory disease, which are thought to be induced by dust storms (Dostal, Nozicka, & Rychlikova, ; Oftedal, Brunekreef, & Nystad, ; Wang, Chen, & Lin, ). The effect of ADS on public health is particularly important in the nursing system, especially with the increasing need for nursing care arisen from the growing elderly population.…”

“…The associations between PM and CVD are far from conclusive, but our research aimed to clarify one association by exploring ADS as a link between PM and AMI hospital admissions using population‐based data in Taiwan. PM and other air pollutants have been linked to respiratory diseases (Dostal et al., ; Oftedal et al., ), higher mortality or lower life expectancy (Correia et al., ; Gouveia, Medeiros, & Alencar, ; Mallone et al., ; Perez et al., ), and other health problems, such as sleep disordered breathing (Zanobetti, Gold, & Redline, ), and adverse effects on infant neurodevelopment (Vrijheid, Martinez, & Aguilera, ). It would be unrealistic for us to try to examine in one study the relationship between air pollutants and all of these conditions; thus, in this research, we focused on the effects of ADS on AMI.…”