Criteria air pollutants and hospitalizations of a wide spectrum of cardiovascular diseases: A nationwide case-crossover study in China.

ABSTRACT: Few national studies have systemically examined the effects of criteria air pollutants on cardiovascular morbidity. This study aimed to investigate the associations between all criteria air pollutants and hospitalization of cause-specific cardiovascular diseases (CVD) in China. We obtained data on CVD hospitalization events of four major categories and 12 specific diseases from 153 hospitals distributed in 20 provincial-level regions from 2013 to 2020. We adopted a time-stratified case-crossover study design using individual cases to capture the effect of short-term exposure to six criteria air pollutants on CVD hospitalizations, using conditional logistic regression models. More than 1.1 million CVD hospitalization events were included. The lag pattern exploration demonstrated the largest

SUBMITTER: Liu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10702887 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature