Synergistic Effects of Ambient Temperature and Air Pollution on Health in Europe: Results from the PHASE Project.

ABSTRACT: We studied the potential synergy between air pollution and meteorology and their impact on mortality in nine European cities with data from 2004 to 2010. We used daily series of Apparent Temperature (AT), measurements of particulate matter (PM10), ozone (O₃), and nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) and total non-accidental, cardiovascular, and respiratory deaths. We applied Poisson regression for city-specific analysis and random effects meta-analysis to combine city-specific results, separately for the warm and cold seasons. In the warm season, the percentage increase in all deaths from natural causes per °C increase in AT tended to be greater during high ozone days, although this was only significant for all ages when all causes were considered. On low ozone days, the increase in the total daily numb

SUBMITTER: Analitis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6163671 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature