Dust Storms and Emergency Department Visits in 3 Southwestern States Using NWS Storm Reports.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Dust storms are projected to increase with climate change. The short-term health outcomes associated with dust storms in the US are not well characterized, especially for morbidity outcomes.

Objective

To estimate associations between dust storms and diagnosis-specific emergency department (ED) visits during 2005 to 2018.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cross-sectional study using a time-stratified case-crossover design, short-term associations between dust storms and ED visits were estimated at the zip code level using conditional Poisson analysis with adjustment for meteorology and within-month trends. Same-day dust storm events and storm events within a lag period of up to 7 days were considered. State-wide patient-level ED visit records acquire

SUBMITTER: Zheng X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11822549 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature