Effect modification of the association between fine particulate air pollution during a wildfire event and respiratory health by area-level measures of socio-economic status, race/ethnicity, and smoking prevalence.

ABSTRACT: Fine particulate air pollution (PM_2.5) is decreasing in most areas of the United States, except for areas most affected by wildfires, where increasing trends in PM_2.5 can be attributed to wildfire smoke. The frequency and duration of large wildfires and the length of the wildfire season have all increased in recent decades, partially due to climate change, and wildfire risk is projected to increase further in many regions including the western United States. Increasingly, empirical evidence suggests differential health effects from air pollution by class and race; however, few studies have investigated such differential health impacts from air pollution during a wildfire event. We investigated differential risk of respiratory health impacts during the 2008 northern Ca

SUBMITTER: Reid CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10852067 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature