Journal
RESPIROLOGY
Volume 16, Issue 7, Pages 1023-1026Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.02034.x
Keywords
cigarette smoking; mortality; outdoor air pollution; respiratory disease; time-series study
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- Medical Research Council [G0801056B, G1000758B, G1000758] Funding Source: researchfish
- National Institute for Health Research [NF-SI-0508-10212] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G1000758] Funding Source: Medline
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With the rapid economic development occurring in the last decade in many countries of Asia, the level of air pollution has increased from both industrial and motor vehicle emissions. Compared with Europe and North America, the potential health effects of this increasing air pollution in Asia remain largely unmeasured. Recent data published by the Health Effects Institute from some major cities in India and China reveal that a 10 mu g/m(3) increase in PM10 was associated with an increase in mortality of 0.6% in daily all-natural cause mortality, with higher risks being found at extremes of high temperatures and in the lowest economically advantaged population. Other Asian studies have confirmed the link between hospital admissions for the worsening of COPD and the increase in asthma prevalence to levels of outdoor air pollutants. Although potential health effects appear to be similar to already-published Western data, it is important that further studies be carried out in Asia that will inform the public and the authorities of the necessity to curb levels of outdoor air pollutants to acceptable levels.
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