Ambient air pollution and emergency department visits and hospitalisation for cardiac arrest: a population-based case-crossover study in Reykjavik, Iceland.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the association between traffic-related ambient air pollution and emergency hospital visits for cardiac arrest.

Design

Case-crossover design was used with a lag time to 4 days.

Setting

The Reykjavik capital area and the study population was the inhabitants 18 years and older identified by encrypted personal identification numbers and zip codes.

Participants and exposure

Cases were those with emergency visits to Landspitali University Hospital during the period 2006-2017 and who were given the primary discharge diagnosis of cardiac arrest according to the International Classification of Diseases 10th edition (ICD-10) code I46. The pollutants were nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than 10 µm

SUBMITTER: Halldorsdottir S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10186428 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature