Short-term effects of air pollution on respiratory diseases among young children in Wuhan city, China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The high risks for childhood respiratory diseases are associated with exposure to ambient air pollution. However, there are few studies that have explored the association between air pollution exposure and respiratory diseases among young children (particularly aged 0-2 years) based on the entire population in a megalopolis.

Methods

Daily hospital admission records were obtained from 54 municipal hospitals in Wuhan city, China. We included all children (aged 0-2 years) hospitalized with respiratory diseases between January 2017 and December 2018. Individual air pollution exposure assessment was used in Land Use Regression model and inverse distance weighted. Case-crossover design and conditional logistic regression models were adopted to estimate the hospitalizati

SUBMITTER: Huang ZH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9042971 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature