Yuewei Liu1,2, Jingju Pan3, Hai Zhang2, Chunxiang Shi4, Guo Li5, Zhe Peng2, Jixuan Ma6, Yun Zhou6, Lan Zhang3. 1. 1 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. 2. 2 Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory for Applied Toxicology and. 3. 3 Institute of Chronic Noncommunicable Disease Control and Prevention, Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Wuhan, China. 4. 4 National Meteorological Information Center, Beijing, China; and. 5. 5 Department of Neurology, Tongji Hospital, and. 6. 6 Department of Occupational and Environmental Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Abstract
Rationale: Short-term exposure to air pollution has been associated with asthma exacerbation and increased healthcare use caused by asthma, but its effect on asthma mortality remains largely unknown. Objectives: To quantitatively assess the association between short-term exposure to air pollution and asthma mortality. Methods: We investigated 4,454 individuals who lived in Hubei province, China, and died from asthma between 2013 and 2018. A case-crossover design and conditional logistic regression models were applied for data analyses. Exposures to particulate matter ≤2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5), particulate matter ≤10 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), and ozone (O3) were estimated by inverse distance weighted averages of all monitoring stations within 50 km from each case's home address. Measurements and Main Results: Each interquartile range (IQR) increase of PM2.5 (lag 3; IQR, 47.1 μg/m3), NO2 (lag 03; IQR, 26.3 μg/m3), and O3 (lag 3; IQR, 52.9 μg/m3) were positively associated with asthma mortality, with odds ratios of 1.07 (95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.12), 1.11 (95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.22), and 1.09 (95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.18), respectively. There was no evidence of departure from linearity for these associations. Further adjustment for other pollutants did not change the associations materially. We did not observe significant associations between PM10, SO2, and CO exposures and asthma mortality. Overall, the estimates remained consistent in various sensitivity analyses. Conclusions: Our results provide new evidence that short-term exposures to PM2.5, NO2, and O3 may increase asthma mortality risk. Further studies are needed to confirm our findings in other populations.
Rationale: Short-term exposure to air pollution has been associated with asthma exacerbation and increased healthcare use caused by asthma, but its effect on asthma mortality remains largely unknown. Objectives: To quantitatively assess the association between short-term exposure to air pollution and asthma mortality. Methods: We investigated 4,454 individuals who lived in Hubei province, China, and died from asthma between 2013 and 2018. A case-crossover design and conditional logistic regression models were applied for data analyses. Exposures to particulate matter ≤2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM2.5), particulate matter ≤10 μm in aerodynamic diameter (PM10), sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), carbon monoxide (CO), and ozone (O3) were estimated by inverse distance weighted averages of all monitoring stations within 50 km from each case's home address. Measurements and Main Results: Each interquartile range (IQR) increase of PM2.5 (lag 3; IQR, 47.1 μg/m3), NO2 (lag 03; IQR, 26.3 μg/m3), and O3 (lag 3; IQR, 52.9 μg/m3) were positively associated with asthma mortality, with odds ratios of 1.07 (95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.12), 1.11 (95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.22), and 1.09 (95% confidence interval, 1.01-1.18), respectively. There was no evidence of departure from linearity for these associations. Further adjustment for other pollutants did not change the associations materially. We did not observe significant associations between PM10, SO2, and CO exposures and asthma mortality. Overall, the estimates remained consistent in various sensitivity analyses. Conclusions: Our results provide new evidence that short-term exposures to PM2.5, NO2, and O3 may increase asthma mortality risk. Further studies are needed to confirm our findings in other populations.
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air pollutants; nitrogen dioxide; ozone; particulate matter
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