Acute effect of multiple ozone metrics on mortality by season in 34 Chinese counties in 2013-2015.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although numerous multicentre studies have estimated the association between ozone exposure and mortality, there are currently no nationally representative multicentre studies of the ozone-mortality relationship in China.

Objective

To investigate the effect on total (nonaccidental) and cause-specific mortality of short-term exposure to ambient ozone, and examine different exposure metrics.

Methods

The effects of short-term exposure to ozone were analysed using various metrics (daily 1-h maximum, daily 8-h maximum and daily average) on total (nonaccidental) and cause-specific (circulatory and respiratory) mortality from 2013 to 2015 in 34 counties in 10 cities across China. We used distributed lag nonlinear models for estimating county-specific relative risk

SUBMITTER: Sun Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6764438 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature