Short-term exposure to air pollution and emergency room visits for acute respiratory symptoms among adults.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVE: To examine the short-term effect of ambient air pollution on daily acute respiratory emergency room visits among adults.METHODS: A time-series study (June 2017-February 2019) was carried out among adults (≥18 years) visiting a multi-specialty hospital in Delhi. We evaluated the association between the daily levels of particulate matter (PM) <2.5 μm in diameter (PM_2.5) and PM <10 μm in diameter (PM₁₀), ozone (O₃), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), carbon monoxide (CO) and sulphur dioxide and daily count of emergency room (ER) visits for acute respiratory symptoms. Generalised additive model (GAM) was used with the Poisson link function to analyse the associations for 0-1 to 0-7 lag days.RESULTS: A total of 69,400 ER visits were recorded, of which

SUBMITTER: Yadav R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10519391 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature