The Influence of Air Pollutants and Meteorological Conditions on the Hospitalization for Respiratory Diseases in Shenzhen City, China

Overview

Journal Int J Environ Res Public Health

Publisher MDPI

Specialties Environmental Health
Public Health

Date 2021 Jun 2

PMID 34065982

Citations 5

Authors

Shi Liang

Chong Sun

Chanfang Liu

Lili Jiang

Yingjia Xie

Shaohong Yan

Zhenyu Jiang

Qingwen Qi

An Zhang

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Abstract

Air pollutants have significant direct and indirect adverse effects on public health. To explore the relationship between air pollutants and meteorological conditions on the hospitalization for respiratory diseases, we collected a whole year of daily major air pollutants' concentrations from Shenzhen city in 2013, including Particulate Matter (PM, PM), Nitrogen dioxide (NO), Ozone (O), Sulphur dioxide (SO), and Carbon monoxide (CO). Meanwhile, we also gained meteorological data. This study collected 109,927 patients cases with diseases of the respiratory system from 98 hospitals. We investigated the influence of meteorological factors on air pollution by Spearman correlation analysis. Then, we tested the short-term correlation between significant air pollutants and respiratory diseases' hospitalization by Distributed Lag Non-linear Model (DLNM). There was a significant negative correlation between the north wind and NO and a significant negative correlation between the south wind and six pollutants. Except for CO, other air pollutants were significantly correlated with the number of hospitalized patients during the lag period. Most of the pollutants reached maximum Relative Risk (RR) with a lag of five days. When the time lag was five days, the annual average of PM, PM, SO, NO, and O increased by 10%, and the risk of hospitalization for the respiratory system increased by 0.29%, 0.23%, 0.22%, 0.25%, and 0.22%, respectively. All the pollutants except CO impact the respiratory system's hospitalization in a short period, and PM10 has the most significant impact. The results are helpful for pollution control from a public health perspective.

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