Relationship between ambient air pollution and daily mortality of SARS in Beijing

Hai Dong Kan; Bing Heng Chen; Chao Wei Fu; Shun Zhang Yu; Li Na Mu

Relationship between ambient air pollution and daily mortality of SARS in Beijing

Hai Dong Kan
, Bing Heng Chen
, Chao Wei Fu
, Shun Zhang Yu
, Li Na Mu

Department of Epidemiology and Environmental Health

Fudan University

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Abstract

Objective: To study the relationship between ambient air pollution and daily mortality of SARS in Beijing. Methods The approach of time-series Poisson regression was used to assess the relationship between daily SARS mortality, ambient air pollution, and other factors from April 25 to May 31, 2003 in Beijing. Results: An increase of each 10 μg/m³ over a 5-day moving average of PM₁₀, SO₂ and NO₂ corresponded to 1.06 (1.00-1.12), 0.74 (0.48-1.13) and 1.22 (1.01-1.48) relative risks (RRs) of daily SARS mortality, respectively. The relative risks (RRs) values depended largely on the selection of lag days. Conclusion: The daily mortality of SARS might be associated with certain air pollutants in Beijing.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Biomedical and Environmental Sciences
Volume	18
Issue number	1
State	Published - Feb 2005

Keywords

Air pollution
Beijing
SARS

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