PMID- 27707554
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20170220
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1873-6424 (Electronic)
IS  - 0269-7491 (Linking)
VI  - 220
IP  - Pt A
DP  - 2017 Jan
TI  - The construction and validity analysis of AQHI based on mortality risk: A case 
      study in Guangzhou, China.
PG  - 487-494
LID - S0269-7491(16)31540-8 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.09.091 [doi]
AB  - The current air quality indices have been criticized for not capturing combined 
      health effects of multiple air pollutants. We proposed an Air Quality Health 
      Index (AQHI) based on the air pollution-mortality associations for communicating 
      health risks of air pollution. Time-series studies were conducted to estimate the 
      associations between air pollutants including sulfur dioxide (SO(2)), nitrogen 
      dioxide (NO(2)), ozone (O(3)), suspended particulate matter smaller than 2.5 mum 
      in aerodynamic diameter (PM(2.5)) and mortality in Guangzhou from 2012 to 2015. 
      The sum of excess mortality risk was calculated to construct the AQHI, which was 
      then adjusted to an arbitrary scale. We then assessed the validity of AQHI. An 
      interquartile increase (IQR) of AQHI was associated with 3.61% [95% confidence 
      interval (95% CI), 2.85%-4.37%], 3.73% (95%CI, 2.18%-5.27%) and 4.19% (95%CI, 
      2.87%-5.52%) increase of mortality, respiratory and cardiovascular hospital 
      admissions, respectively. Compared with the currently used Air Quality Index 
      (AQI), AQHI had higher effects on mortality and morbidity. Our study suggests 
      that AQHI might comprehensively capture the combined effects of air pollution, 
      which make it be a more valid communication tool of air pollution-related health 
      risk.
CI  - Copyright A(c) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Li, Xing
AU  - Li X
AD  - Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for 
      Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
FAU - Xiao, Jianpeng
AU  - Xiao J
AD  - Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for 
      Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
FAU - Lin, Hualiang
AU  - Lin H
AD  - Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for 
      Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
FAU - Liu, Tao
AU  - Liu T
AD  - Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for 
      Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
FAU - Qian, Zhengmin
AU  - Qian Z
AD  - Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Saint Louis University, 
      Saint Louis, MO, USA.
FAU - Zeng, Weilin
AU  - Zeng W
AD  - Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for 
      Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
FAU - Guo, Lingchuan
AU  - Guo L
AD  - Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for 
      Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China.
FAU - Ma, Wenjun
AU  - Ma W
AD  - Guangdong Provincial Institute of Public Health, Guangdong Provincial Center for 
      Disease Control and Prevention, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China. Electronic address: 
      mawj@gdiph.org.cn.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Validation Study
DEP - 20161002
PL  - England
TA  - Environ Pollut
JT  - Environmental pollution (Barking, Essex : 1987)
JID - 8804476
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Particulate Matter)
RN  - 0UZA3422Q4 (Sulfur Dioxide)
RN  - 66H7ZZK23N (Ozone)
RN  - S7G510RUBH (Nitrogen Dioxide)
SB  - IM
MH  - Air Pollutants/adverse effects/analysis
MH  - Air Pollution/adverse effects/*analysis
MH  - China
MH  - Environmental Exposure/adverse effects/*analysis
MH  - Female
MH  - Hospitalization
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - *Mortality
MH  - Nitrogen Dioxide/*analysis
MH  - Ozone/*analysis
MH  - Particle Size
MH  - Particulate Matter/adverse effects/*analysis
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Risk
MH  - Risk Assessment/methods
MH  - Sulfur Dioxide/*analysis
MH  - Survival Rate
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Air Quality Health Index
OT  - Air quality index
OT  - Morbidity
OT  - Mortality
OT  - Validity
EDAT- 2016/10/07 06:00
MHDA- 2017/08/18 06:00
CRDT- 2016/10/07 06:00
PHST- 2016/07/05 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2016/09/28 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2016/09/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2016/10/07 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2017/08/18 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2016/10/07 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0269-7491(16)31540-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.09.091 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Pollut. 2017 Jan;220(Pt A):487-494. doi: 10.1016/j.envpol.2016.09.091. 
      Epub 2016 Oct 2.