Asian Dust Storm Events are Associated With an Acute Increase in Pneumonia Hospitalization

作者：Kang Jiunn Horng; Keller Joseph J; Chen Chin Shyan; Lin Herng Ching^*

来源：Annals of Epidemiology, 2012, 22(4): 257-263.

DOI：10.1016/j.annepidem.2012.02.008

• Asian Dust Storm
• Pneumonia
• Pneumonia Hospitalization

PURPOSE: This study aims to examine the association of Asian dust storm (ADS) events with the daily number of pneumonia admissions using 10-year population-based data in the Taipei metropolitan region. %26lt;br%26gt;METHODS: We identified 1,933,247 admissions with a principal discharge diagnosis of pneumonia between 2000 and 2009. The auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) method was used to examine the associations between ADS episodes and the logarithm of the daily number of pneumonia hospitalizations. %26lt;br%26gt;RESULTS: There was a significant difference in the mean number of daily pneumonia admissions between ADS event days, post-ADS event days, and non-ADS event days (P %26lt; .001); the mean number of daily admissions for ADS event days, post-ADS event days, and non-ADS event days were 292.5, 305.7, and 279.0, respectively. After adjusting for the time-trend effect, ambient temperature, and SO2, CO, and O-3, the ARIMA showed that compared with non-ADS event days, ADS event clays and post-ADS event days 1 through 4 had a significantly higher mean number of pneumonia admissions for the total group. %26lt;br%26gt;CONCLUSIONS: Our results suggest that ADS event days and post-ADS days 1 through 4 had significandy higher mean numbers of pneumonia admissions than non-ADS days. Ann Epidemiol 2012;22:257-263.

• 出版日期2012-4