Air pollution and outpatient visits for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases: A time‐series analysis in Luoyang, China

Ambient Air Pollution and Daily Outpatient Visits for Cardiac Arrhythmia in Shanghai, China

BACKGROUND Cardiac arrhythmias are cardiac rhythm disorders that comprise an important public health problem. Few prior studies have examined the association between ambient air pollution and arrhythmias in general populations in mainland China. METHODS We performed a time-series analysis to investigate the short-term association between air pollution (particulate matter with an aerodynamic d...

The Association between Air Pollution and Outpatient and Inpatient Visits in Shenzhen, China

Nowadays, air pollution is a severe environmental problem in China. To investigate the effects of ambient air pollution on health, a time series analysis of daily outpatient and inpatient visits in 2015 were conducted in Shenzhen (China). Generalized additive model was employed to analyze associations between six air pollutants (namely SO₂, CO, NO₂, O₃, PM10, and PM2.5) and daily outpatient and...

Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Diseases

Ambient Air Pollution, Meteorological Factors and Outpatient Visits for Eczema in Shanghai, China: A Time-Series Analysis

Environmental irritants are important risk factors for skin diseases, but little is known about the influence of environmental factors on eczema incidence. In this time-series study, our objective was to examine the associations of environmental factors with outpatient visits for eczema. Daily outpatient visits between 2007 and 2011 (1826 days) were collected from Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, ...

Air pollution and unscheduled hospital outpatient and emergency room visits.

We conducted a time-series analysis of daily hospital visits and air pollution data to assess acute effects of air pollution on daily unscheduled outpatient visits to internal medicine, pediatric, and emergency departments in the No. 3 Affiliated Hospital of Beijing Medical University in Beijing, China. Sulfur dioxide was marginally significantly associated with total outpatient visits (beta = ...