Long term exposure to ambient air pollution and hospital admission burden in Scotland: 16 year prospective population cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Air pollution is considered a major threat for global health and is associated with various health outcomes. Previous research on long term exposure to ambient air pollution and health placed more emphasis on mortality rather than hospital admission outcomes and was characterised by heterogeneities in the size of effect estimates between studies, with less focus on mental/behavioural or infectious diseases outcomes. In this study, we investigated the association between long term exposure to ambient air pollution and all cause and cause specific hospital admissions.

Design

This was a prospective cohort study.

Setting

Individual level data from the Scottish Longitudinal Study (SLS) were linked to yearly concentrations of four pollutants (nitrogen dioxide (NO

SUBMITTER: Abed Al Ahad M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11660336 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature