Short-term effects and economic burden of air pollutants on acute lower respiratory tract infections in children in Southwest China: a time-series study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are few studies on the effects of air pollutants on acute lower respiratory tract infections (ALRI) in children. Here, we investigated the relationship of fine particulate matter (PM_2.5), inhalable particulate matter (PM₁₀), sulfur dioxide (SO₂), and nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) with the daily number of hospitalizations for ALRI in children in Sichuan Province, China, and to estimate the economic burden of disease due to exposure to air pollutants.

Methods

We collected records of 192,079 cases of childhood ALRI hospitalization between January 1, 2017 and December 31, 2018 from nine municipal/prefecture medical institutions as well as the simultaneous meteorological and air pollution data from 183 monitoring sites in Sich

SUBMITTER: He Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9840265 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature