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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Al-Taiar, Abdullah
• Thalib, Lukman

Titel

Short-term effect of dust storms on the risk of mortality due to respiratory, cardiovascular and all-causes in Kuwait

Ist Teil von

• International journal of biometeorology, 2014, Vol.58 (1), p.69-77

Ort / Verlag

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

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SpringerLink (Online service)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This study aimed to investigate the impact of dust storms on short-term mortality in Kuwait. We analyzed respiratory and cardiovascular mortality as well as all-cause mortality in relation to dust storm events over a 5-year study period, using data obtained through a population-based retrospective ecological time series study. Dust storm days were identified when the national daily average of PM 10 exceeded 200 μg/m 3 . Generalized additive models with Poisson link were used to estimate the relative risk (RR) of age-stratified daily mortality associated with dust events, after adjusting for potential confounders including weather variables and long-term trends. There was no significant association between dust storm events and same-day respiratory mortality (RR = 0.96; 95 %CI 0.88–1.04), cardiovascular mortality (RR = 0.98; 95 %CI 0.96–1.012) or all-cause mortality (RR = 0.99; 95 %CI 0.97–1.00). Overall our findings suggest that local dust, that most likely originates from crustal materials, has little impact on short-term respiratory, cardiovascular or all-cause mortality.