Air quality
; Diagnosis
; Environmental Protection Agency
; Military bases
; Particles (particulate matter)
; Regression analysis
; Health effects
; Particulate Matter
; PM10
; PM2.5
; Young healthy adults
; Health
; carbon monoxide
; nitrate
; ozone
; sulfur dioxide
; adult
; air quality
; concentration (composition)
; data set
; health policy
; health risk
; particulate matter
; pollution exposure
; respiratory disease
; young population
; adult
; air monitoring
; air quality
; ambient air
; Article
; chronic obstructive lung disease
; controlled study
; environmental exposure
; environmental parameters
; health status
; human
; human experiment
; ICD-9
; influenza
; ischemic heart disease
; lung disease
; normal human
; particulate matter
; pneumoconiosis
; pneumonia
; priority journal
; respiratory tract disease
; respiratory tract infection
; soldier
; time series analysis
; United States
; upper respiratory tract infection
; young adult
; Fort Bliss
; Texas
; United States
Scopus学科分类:
Environmental Science: Water Science and Technology
; Earth and Planetary Sciences: Earth-Surface Processes
; Environmental Science: Environmental Chemistry
英文摘要:
There is an absence of studies that define the relationship between ambient particulate matter (PM) levels and adverse health outcomes among the young and healthy adult sub-group. In this research, the relationship between exposures to ambient levels of PM in the 10 micron (PM10) and 2.5 micron (PM2.5) size fractions and health outcomes in members of the healthy, young-adult subgroup who are 18-39 years of age was examined. Active duty military personnel populations at three strategically selected military bases in the United States were used as a surrogate to the control group. Health outcome data, which consists of the number of diagnoses for each of nine International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision (ICD-9) categories related to respiratory illness, were derived from outpatient visits at each of the three military bases. Data on ambient concentrations of particulate matter, specifically PM10 and PM2.5, were obtained for these sites. The health outcome data were correlated and regressed with the PM10 and PM2.5 data, and other air quality and weather-related data on a daily and weekly basis for the period 1998 to 2004. Results indicate that at Fort Bliss, which is a US Environmental Protection Agency designated non-attainment area for PM10, a statistically significant association exists between the weekly-averaged number of adverse health effects in the young and healthy adult population and the corresponding weekly-average ambient PM10 concentration. A least squares regression analysis was performed on the Fort Bliss data sets indicated that the health outcome data is related to several environmental parameters in addition to PM10. Overall, the analysis estimates a.6% increase in the weekly rate of emergency room visits for upper respiratory infections for every 10 μg/m3 increase in the weekly-averaged PM10 concentration above the mean. The findings support the development of policy and guidance opportunities that can be developed to mitigate exposures to particulate matter. � 2015 Elsevier Ltd.
Deployment Health Support Directorate, OASD (Health Affairs), United States; Civil, Environmental and Infrastructure Engineering Department, George Mason University, MSN 6C1, Fairfax, VA, United States; Department of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, MD, United States
Recommended Citation:
Shaughnessy W,J,, Venigalla M,et al. Health effects of ambient levels of respirable particulate matter (PM) on healthy, young-adult population[J]. Atmospheric Environment,2015-01-01,123