Particulate matter-attributable mortality and relationships with carbon dioxide in 250 urban areas worldwide.

ABSTRACT: Urban air pollution is high on global health and sustainability agendas, but information is limited on associated city-level disease burdens. We estimated fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) mortality in the 250 most populous cities worldwide using PM_2.5 concentrations, population, disease rates, and concentration-response relationships from the Global Burden of Disease 2016 Study. Only 8% of these cities had population-weighted mean concentrations below the World Health Organization guideline for annual average PM_2.5. City-level PM_2.5-attributable mortality rates ranged from 13-125 deaths per 100,000 people. PM_2.5 mortality rates and carbon dioxide (CO₂) emission rates were weakly positively correlated, with regional influences

SUBMITTER: Anenberg SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6689059 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature