PMID- 17659273
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20071203
LR  - 20131121
IS  - 0013-9351 (Print)
IS  - 0013-9351 (Linking)
VI  - 105
IP  - 3
DP  - 2007 Nov
TI  - A comparison of mortality related to urban air particles between periods with 
      Asian dust days and without Asian dust days in Seoul, Korea, 2000-2004.
PG  - 409-13
AB  - Recent papers have reported that Asian dust events have been associated with 
      increased risks of all-cause mortality and rates of respiratory illness. The 
      current study was designed to estimate the relative risk of mortality associated 
      with Asian dust events. We used the daily counts of non-accidental deaths, air 
      pollution and meteorological data in Seoul, Korea from 2000 to 2004. We divided 
      all days during the study period into two groups according to the presence or 
      absence of Asian dust events. For each group, we conducted time-series analysis 
      to estimate the relative risk of total non-accidental death when the 
      concentration of each air pollutant increased by the inter-quartile range (IQR). 
      The average concentrations of every air pollutant on the days without a dust 
      event were lower than those on the days with such an event. We found that the 
      effect sizes of air pollution on daily death rates in the model without Asian 
      dust events were larger than those in the model with Asian dust events, and were 
      statistically significant for all air pollutants (PM(10), CO, NO(2), and SO(2)) 
      except for O(3). Our results suggest that we are likely to underestimate the risk 
      of urban air particles if we analyze the effect size of air pollution on daily 
      mortality during Asian dust events. We hypothesize that the real health effect is 
      much larger than previous results suggested.
FAU - Lee, Jong-Tae
AU  - Lee JT
AD  - Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Hanyang University, Hanyang 
      University, Haengdang-dong 17, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 133-791, Republic of Korea. 
      jlee@hanyang.ac.kr
FAU - Son, Ji-Young
AU  - Son JY
FAU - Cho, Yong-Sung
AU  - Cho YS
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20070720
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Environ Res
JT  - Environmental research
JID - 0147621
RN  - 0 (Dust)
RN  - 0 (Particulate Matter)
RN  - 0UZA3422Q4 (Sulfur Dioxide)
RN  - 66H7ZZK23N (Ozone)
RN  - 7U1EE4V452 (Carbon Monoxide)
RN  - S7G510RUBH (Nitrogen Dioxide)
SB  - IM
MH  - Carbon Monoxide/adverse effects/analysis
MH  - *Cause of Death
MH  - *Dust/analysis
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Epidemiological Monitoring
MH  - Humans
MH  - Korea
MH  - Nitrogen Dioxide/adverse effects/analysis
MH  - Ozone/adverse effects/analysis
MH  - Particle Size
MH  - Particulate Matter
MH  - Respiration Disorders/epidemiology/etiology/*mortality
MH  - Respiratory Tract Diseases/epidemiology/etiology/*mortality
MH  - Sulfur Dioxide/adverse effects/analysis
MH  - Urban Health
EDAT- 2007/07/31 09:00
MHDA- 2007/12/06 09:00
CRDT- 2007/07/31 09:00
PHST- 2007/01/18 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2007/05/28 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2007/06/18 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2007/07/31 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/12/06 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2007/07/31 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0013-9351(07)00133-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envres.2007.06.004 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Res. 2007 Nov;105(3):409-13. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2007.06.004. Epub 2007 
      Jul 20.