These results suggest that air pollution increased the risk of cardiovascular deaths in Hefei.

PMID: 

Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2019 Dec 4. Epub 2019 Dec 4. PMID: 31802340

Abstract Title: 

Study on the association between ambient air pollution and daily cardiovascular death in Hefei, China.

Abstract: 

Cardiovascular disease has always been the most serious public health problem in China. Although many studies have found that the risk of death caused by cardiovascular disease is related to air pollutants, the existing results are still inconsistent. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of air pollutants on the risk of daily cardiovascular deaths in Hefei, China. Daily data on cardiovascular deaths, daily air pollutants, and meteorological factors from 2007 to 2016 were collected in this study. A time-series study design using a distributed lag nonlinear model was employed to evaluate the association between air pollutants and cardiovascular deaths. First, a single air pollutant model was established based on the minimum value of Akaike information criterion (AIC), and the single day lag effects and multi-day lag effects were discussed separately. Then, two-pollutant models were fitted. Subgroup analyses were conducted by gender (male and female), age (

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