Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Li, Die
• Wang, Jian-bing
• Zhang, Zhen-yu
• Shen, Peng
• Zheng, Pei-wen
• Jin, Ming-juan
• Lu, Huai-chu
• Lin, Hong-bo
• Chen, Kun

Titel

Effects of air pollution on hospital visits for pneumonia in children: a two-year analysis from China

Ist Teil von

• Environmental science and pollution research international, 2018-04, Vol.25 (10), p.10049-10057

Ort / Verlag

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

SpringerLink

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Although the effect of air pollution on respiratory health has been identified, few studies can be available to evaluate the association of air pollution with hospital visits for children’s pneumonia in China. To explore whether high concentrations of air pollutants (including PM 2.5 , PM 10 , NO 2 , and SO 2 ) are related to hospital visits for pneumonia in children, we conducted a population-based time-series study in Ningbo, China, from January 1st, 2014 to November 1st, 2015. We used a generalized additive Poisson regression model to calculate risk ratios and 95% confidence intervals for the associations of air pollutants and hospital visits for pneumonia in children and found that these four pollutants were associated with the increased hospital visits for pneumonia in children (1.3% for PM2.5, 1.0% for PM10, 2.9% for NO 2 , 5.0% for SO 2 per 10-μg/m 3 increase in PM2.5, PM10, NO 2 , and SO 2 , respectively). Stronger associations were observed in the cold seasons and among children under 5 years.