PMID- 27016680
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170612
LR  - 20170612
IS  - 1879-1026 (Electronic)
IS  - 0048-9697 (Linking)
VI  - 557-558
DP  - 2016 Jul 1
TI  - Air pollution and risk of respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations in the 
      most populous city in Vietnam.
PG  - 322-30
LID - S0048-9697(16)30493-4 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.070 [doi]
AB  - Air pollution has become an alarming issue in Vietnam recently; however, there 
      was only one study so far on the effects of ambient air pollution on population 
      health. Our study aimed to investigate the short-term effects of air pollutants 
      including PM10, NO2, SO2, and O3 on respiratory and cardiovascular 
      hospitalizations in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), the largest city in Vietnam. Data on 
      hospitalization from the two largest hospitals in HCMC and daily records of PM10, 
      NO2, SO2, O3 and meteorological data were collected from February 2004 to 
      December 2007. A time-series regression analysis with distributed lag model was 
      applied for data analysis. Changes in levels of NO2 and PM10 were strongly 
      associated with hospital admissions for both respiratory and cardiovascular 
      diseases (CVD); whereas levels of SO2 were only moderately associated with 
      respiratory and CVD hospital admissions and O3 concentration was not associated 
      with any of them. For a 10mug/m(3) increase of each air pollutant, the risk of 
      respiratory admissions increased from 0.7% to 8% while the risk of CVD admissions 
      increased from 0.5% to 4%. Females were found to be more sensitive than males to 
      exposure to air pollutants in regard to respiratory diseases. In regard to CVD, 
      females (RR, 1.04, 95% CI, 1.01-1.07) had a slightly higher risk of admissions 
      than males (RR, 1.03, 95% CI, 1-1.06) to exposure to NO2. In contrast, males (RR, 
      1.007, 95%CI, 1-1.01) had a higher risk of admission than females (RR, 1.004, 
      95%CI, 1.001-1.007) to exposure to PM10. People in the age group of 5-65year-olds 
      had a slightly higher risk of admissions caused by air pollutants than the 
      elderly (65+years old) except for a significant effect of PM10 on the risk of 
      cardiovascular admissions was found for the elderly only.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
FAU - Phung, Dung
AU  - Phung D
AD  - Centre for Environment and Population Health, Griffith University, Australia. 
      Electronic address: d.phung@griffith.edu.au.
FAU - Hien, To Thi
AU  - Hien TT
AD  - Faculty of Environment, Ho Chi Minh University of Science, Vietnam National 
      University, Viet Nam.
FAU - Linh, Ho Nhut
AU  - Linh HN
AD  - Faculty of Environment, Ho Chi Minh University of Science, Vietnam National 
      University, Viet Nam.
FAU - Luong, Ly M T
AU  - Luong LM
AD  - School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia.
FAU - Morawska, Lidia
AU  - Morawska L
AD  - International Laboratory for Air Quality & Health, Queensland University of 
      Technology, Australia.
FAU - Chu, Cordia
AU  - Chu C
AD  - Centre for Environment and Population Health, Griffith University, Australia.
FAU - Binh, Nguyen Duy
AU  - Binh ND
AD  - HCM City Environmental Protection Agency (HEPA), Viet Nam.
FAU - Thai, Phong K
AU  - Thai PK
AD  - International Laboratory for Air Quality & Health, Queensland University of 
      Technology, Australia. Electronic address: phong.thai@qut.edu.au.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20160324
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Sci Total Environ
JT  - The Science of the total environment
JID - 0330500
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Particulate Matter)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants/analysis
MH  - Air Pollution/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Cardiovascular Diseases/*epidemiology
MH  - Environmental Exposure/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - Hospitalization/statistics & numerical data
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Particulate Matter/analysis
MH  - Respiration Disorders/epidemiology
MH  - Vietnam/epidemiology
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Air pollutants
OT  - Cardiovascular diseases
OT  - Exposure
OT  - Hospital admission
OT  - Respiratory diseases
OT  - Vietnam
EDAT- 2016/03/27 06:00
MHDA- 2017/06/13 06:00
CRDT- 2016/03/27 06:00
PHST- 2016/02/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/03/10 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/03/11 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/03/27 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2016/03/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/06/13 06:00 [medline]
AID - S0048-9697(16)30493-4 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.070 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Sci Total Environ. 2016 Jul 1;557-558:322-30. doi: 
      10.1016/j.scitotenv.2016.03.070. Epub 2016 Mar 24.