Risk of Cardiovascular Hospitalizations from Exposure to Coarse Particulate Matter (PM10) Below the European Union Safety Threshold

Vaduganathan, Muthiah
De Palma, Giuseppe
Manerba, Alessandra
Triggiani, Marco
Apostoli, Pietro
Dei Cas, Livio
Nodari, Savina
GOLDONI, Matteo

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Publication date

January 2016

DOI

10.1016/j.amjcard.2016.01.041

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Abstract

The association between exposure to air pollution and acute cardiovascular (CV) events is well documented; however, limited data are available evaluating the public health safety of various "doses" of particular matter (PM) below currently accepted safety thresholds. We explored the cross-sectional association between PM with aerodynamic diameter <10 μm (PM10) and daily CV hospitalizations in Brescia, Italy, using Poisson regression models adjusted for age, gender, and meteorologic indices. Average daily exposure to PM10 obtained from arithmetic means of air pollution data were captured by 4 selected monitoring stations. PM10 data were expressed as daily means (lag 0-day) or 3-day moving averages (lag 3-day) and categorized according to the...