期刊
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
卷 33, 期 3, 页码 376-384出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2006.12.001
关键词
air pollution; fine particles; coarse particles; PM2.5; mortality
资金
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES [Z01ES043012] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- Intramural NIH HHS [Z01 ES043012-09] Funding Source: Medline
The findings on health effects of ambient fine particles (PM2.5) and coarse particles (PM10-2.5) remain inconsistent. In China, PM2.5 and PM10-2.5 are not the criteria air pollutants, and their monitoring data are scarce. There have been no epidemiological studies of health effects of PM2.5 and PM10-2.5 simultaneously in China. We conducted a time series study to examine the acute effects of PM2.5 and PM10-2.5 on daily mortality in Shanghai, China from Mar. 4, 2004 to Dec. 31, 2005. We used the generalized additive model (GAM) with penalized splines to analyze the mortality, air pollution and covariate data. The average concentrations of PM2.5 and PM10-2.5 were 56.4 mu g/m(3) and 52.3 mu g/m(3) in our study period, and PM2.5 constituted around 53.0% of the PM10 mass. Compared with the Global Air Quality Guidelines set by World Health Organization (10 mu g/m(3) for annual mean) and U.S. National Ambient Air Quality Standards (15 mu g/m(3) for annual mean), the PM2.5 level in Shanghai was much higher. We found that PM2.5 was associated with the death rates from all causes and from cardiorespiratory diseases in Shanghai. We did not find a significant effect of PM10-2.5 on mortality outcomes. A10 mu g/m(3) increase in the 2-day moving average (lag01) concentration of PM2.5 corresponded to 0.36% (95% Cl 0.11%, 0.61%), 0.41% (95% Cl 0.01%, 0.82%) and 0.95% (95% Cl 0.16%, 1.73%) increase of total, cardiovascular and respiratory mortality. For PM10-2.5, the effects were attenuated and less precise. Our analyses provide the first statistically significant evidence in China that PM2.5 has an adverse effect on population health and strengthen the rationale for further limiting levels of PM2.5 in outdoor air in Shanghai. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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