TY - JOUR
T1 - Associations between ambient air pollutants and hospital admissions
T2 - more needs to be done
AU - Belch, Jill J. F.
AU - Fitton, Catherine
AU - Cox, Bianca
AU - Chalmers, James D.
N1 - Funding Information:
The project was funded by the Miller Bequest and by the TICR appeal.
Funding Information:
Data linkage was provided by the Tayside Health Informatics Centre (HIC). The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Deaths from air pollution in the UK are higher by a factor of 10 than from car crashes, 7 for drug-related deaths and 52 for murders, and yet awareness seems to be lacking in local government. We conducted an 18-year retrospective cohort study using routinely collected health care records from Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, and Perth Royal Infirmary, in Tayside, Scotland, UK, from 2000 to 2017. Hospitalisation events and deaths were linked to daily nitric oxides (NOX, NO, NO2), and particulate matter 10 (PM10) levels extracted from publicly available data over this same time period. Distributed lag models were used to estimate risk ratios for hospitalisation and mortality, adjusting for temperature, humidity, day of the week, month and public holiday. Nitric oxides and PM10 were associated with an increased risk of all hospital admissions and cardiovascular (CV) admissions on day of exposure to pollutant. This study shows a significant increase in all cause and CV hospital admissions, on high pollution days in Tayside, Scotland.
AB - Deaths from air pollution in the UK are higher by a factor of 10 than from car crashes, 7 for drug-related deaths and 52 for murders, and yet awareness seems to be lacking in local government. We conducted an 18-year retrospective cohort study using routinely collected health care records from Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, and Perth Royal Infirmary, in Tayside, Scotland, UK, from 2000 to 2017. Hospitalisation events and deaths were linked to daily nitric oxides (NOX, NO, NO2), and particulate matter 10 (PM10) levels extracted from publicly available data over this same time period. Distributed lag models were used to estimate risk ratios for hospitalisation and mortality, adjusting for temperature, humidity, day of the week, month and public holiday. Nitric oxides and PM10 were associated with an increased risk of all hospital admissions and cardiovascular (CV) admissions on day of exposure to pollutant. This study shows a significant increase in all cause and CV hospital admissions, on high pollution days in Tayside, Scotland.
KW - Air pollution
KW - Cardiovascular disease
KW - Hospital admissions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115994139&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11356-021-16544-0
DO - 10.1007/s11356-021-16544-0
M3 - Article
C2 - 34590228
SN - 0944-1344
VL - 28
SP - 61848
EP - 61852
JO - Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
JF - Environmental Science and Pollution Research International
ER -