Impacts of ambient air quality on acute asthma hospital admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic in Oxford City, UK: a time-series study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The study aims to investigate the short-term associations between exposure to ambient air pollution (nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), particulate matter pollution-particles with diameter<2.5 µm (PM_2.5) and PM₁₀) and incidence of asthma hospital admissions among adults, in Oxford, UK.

Design

Retrospective time-series study.

Setting

Oxford City (postcode areas OX1-OX4), UK.

Participants

Adult population living within the postcode areas OX1-OX4 in Oxford, UK from 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2021.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Hourly NO₂, PM_2.5 and PM₁₀ concentrations and meteorological data for the period 1 January 2015 to 31 December 2020 were analysed and used as exposures. We

SUBMITTER: Singh A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10806833 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature