Short-term exposure to PM_2.5 and 1.5 million deaths: a time-stratified case-crossover analysis in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Satellite-based PM_2.5 predictions are being used to advance exposure science and air-pollution epidemiology in developed countries; including emerging evidence about the impacts of PM_2.5 on acute health outcomes beyond the cardiovascular and respiratory systems, and the potential modifying effects from individual-level factors in these associations. Research on these topics is lacking in low and middle income countries. We aimed to explore the association between short-term exposure to PM_2.5 with broad-category and cause-specific mortality outcomes in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area (MCMA), and potential effect modification by age, sex, and SES characteristics in such associations.

Methods

We used a time-stratified case-crossover

SUBMITTER: Gutierrez-Avila I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10580614 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature