1. Estimating the acute effects of fine and coarse particle pollution on stroke mortality of in six Chinese subtropical cities.
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Wang, Xiaojie, Qian, Zhengmin, Hong, Hua, Yang, Yin, Xu, Yanjun, Xu, Xiaojun, Yao, Zhenjiang, Zhang, Lingli, Rolling, Craig A., Schootman, Mario, Liu, Tao, Xiao, Jianpeng, Li, Xing, Zeng, Weilin, Ma, Wenjun, and Lin, Hualiang
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STROKE-related mortality ,PARTICLES & the environment ,URBAN pollution ,CITIES & towns ,PARTICULATE matter & the environment - Abstract
While increasing evidence suggested that PM 2.5 is the most harmful fraction of the particle pollutants, the health effects of coarse particles (PM 10–2.5 ) have been inconclusive, especially on cerebrovascular diseases, we thus evaluated the effects of PM 10 , PM 2.5 , and PM 10–2.5 on stroke mortality in six Chinese subtropical cities using generalized additive models. We also conducted random-effects meta-analyses to estimate the overall effects across the six cities. We found that PM 10 , PM 2.5 , and PM 10-2.5 were significantly associated with stroke mortality. Each 10 μg/m 3 increase of PM 10 , PM 2.5 and PM 10-2.5 (lag03) was associated with an increase of 1.88% (95% CI: 1.37%, 2.39%), 3.07% (95% CI: 2.35%, 3.79%), and 5.72% (95% CI: 3.82%, 7.65%) in overall stroke mortality. Using the World Health Organization's guideline as reference concentration, we estimated that 3.21% (95% CI: 1.65%, 3.01%) of stroke mortality (corresponding to 1743 stroke mortalities, 95% CI: 896, 1633) were attributed to PM 10 , 5.57% (95% CI: 0.50%, 1.23%) stroke mortality (3019, 95% CI: 2286, 3777) were attributed to PM 2.5 , and 2.02% (95% CI: 1.85%, 3.08%) of stroke mortality (1097, 95% CI: 1005, 1673) could be attributed to PM 10-2.5 . Our analysis indicates that both PM 2.5 and PM 10-2.5 are important risk factors of stroke mortality and should be considered in the prevention and control of stroke in the study area. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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