Association between dust weather and number of admissions for patients with respiratory diseases in spring in Lanzhou.

Controlling the confounding factors on respiratory hospitalizations such as long-term trend, meteorological factor, atmospheric pollution, and calendar effect, the research is designed to study the effect of sand-dust weather on respiratory diseases from 2001 to 2005 in Lanzhou City on the basis of the semi-parametric generalized additive model (GAM). The results indicate that there is an association between sand-dust weather and the increase in respiratory hospitalizations, and with lagging effect. There are gender and age differences in the effect of sand-dust weather on health, on male severer than on female (RR value being 1.148 for male, while 1.144 for female without statistical significance), and much greater on the aged ≥ 65 years than on < 65 years (RR value being 1.266 for ≥ 65 yr, and 1.119 for < 65 yr). Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Yan Tao, Xingqin An, Zhaobin Sun, Qing Hou, Yu Wang. Association between dust weather and number of admissions for patients with respiratory diseases in spring in Lanzhou. The Science of the total environment. 2012 Apr 15;423:8-11

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