Short-Term Association of Air Pollutant Levels and Hospital Admissions for Stroke and Effect Modification by Apparent Temperature: Evidence From Shanghai, China.

ABSTRACT: The epidemiological evidence on relationships between air pollution, temperature, and stroke remains inconclusive. Limited evidence is available for the effect modification by apparent temperature, an indicator reflecting reactions to the thermal environment, on short-term associations between air pollution and hospital admissions for stroke. We used a generalized additive model with Poisson regression to estimate the relative risk (RR) of stroke admissions in Shanghai, China, between 2014 and 2016 associated with air pollutants, with subgroup analyses by age, sex, apparent temperature, and season. During the study period, changes in the daily number of stroke admissions per 10 μg/m³ increase in nitrogen dioxide (at lags 0, 1, 0-1, and 0-2) ranged from 1.05 (95% CI: 0.82%, 2.88%

SUBMITTER: Weng L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8503471 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature