PMID- 37419148
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230809
LR  - 20230809
IS  - 1879-1298 (Electronic)
IS  - 0045-6535 (Linking)
VI  - 338
DP  - 2023 Oct
TI  - A comparative study of life-years lost attributable to air particulate matter in 
      Asia-Pacific and European countries.
PG  - 139420
LID - S0045-6535(23)01687-9 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139420 [doi]
AB  - Air particulate matter (PM) and its harmful effects on human health are of great 
      concern globally due to all-cause and cause-specific mortality impacts across 
      different population groups. While Europe has made significant progress in 
      reducing particulate air pollution-related mortality through innovative 
      technologies and policies, many countries in Asia-Pacific region still rely on 
      high-polluting technologies and have yet to implement effective policies to 
      address this issue, resulting in higher levels of mortality due to air pollution 
      in the region. This study has three aims related to quantifying life-years lost 
      (LYL) attributable to PM, and further separated into ambient PM and household air 
      pollution (HAP): (1) to investigate LYL by causes of death; (2) to compare LYL 
      between Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Europe; and (3) to assess LYL across different 
      socio-demographic index (SDI) countries. The data used come from the Institute 
      for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and Health Effects Institute (HEI). Our 
      results show that average LYL due to PM in APAC was greater than in Europe, with 
      some Pacific island countries particularly affected by the exposure to HAP. Three 
      quarters of LYL came from premature deaths by ischemic heart disease and stroke, 
      in both continents. There were significant differences between SDI groups for 
      causes of death due to ambient PM and HAP. Our findings call for urgent 
      improvement of clean air to reduce indoor and outdoor air pollution-related 
      mortality in the APAC region.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
FAU - Somboonsin, Pattheera
AU  - Somboonsin P
AD  - School of Demography, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, 
      Australia. Electronic address: paire.somboonsin@anu.edu.au.
FAU - Vardoulakis, Sotiris
AU  - Vardoulakis S
AD  - National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National 
      University, Canberra, 2601, Australia.
FAU - Canudas-Romo, Vladimir
AU  - Canudas-Romo V
AD  - School of Demography, The Australian National University, Canberra, 2601, 
      Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230705
PL  - England
TA  - Chemosphere
JT  - Chemosphere
JID - 0320657
RN  - 0 (Particulate Matter)
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Particulate Matter/analysis
MH  - Asia/epidemiology
MH  - *Air Pollution/adverse effects/analysis
MH  - Mortality, Premature
MH  - Europe
MH  - *Air Pollutants/analysis
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Air pollution
OT  - Asia-Pacific
OT  - Europe
OT  - Life expectancy
OT  - Life-years lost
OT  - Particulate matter
COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known 
      competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared 
      to influence the work reported in this paper.
EDAT- 2023/07/08 10:42
MHDA- 2023/08/09 06:43
CRDT- 2023/07/07 19:22
PHST- 2023/03/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/06/08 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/07/04 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/08/09 06:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/07/08 10:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/07/07 19:22 [entrez]
AID - S0045-6535(23)01687-9 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139420 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Chemosphere. 2023 Oct;338:139420. doi: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2023.139420. Epub 
      2023 Jul 5.