Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Increased Emergency Room Visits for Skin Diseases in Beijing, China

Toxics

Hongyu Li¹  Xinbiao Guo¹  Wanzhou Wang¹  Furong Deng¹  Wenlou Zhang¹  Jun Wu²  Jingjing Zhao²  Qingbian Ma² 

[1] Department of Occupational and Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China;Emergency Department, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing 100191, China;

关键词: air pollution;    particulate matter;    emergency room visits;    skin diseases;    dermatitis;    eczema;   

DOI  :  10.3390/toxics9050108

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Skin diseases have become a global concern. This study aims to evaluate the associations between ambient air pollution and emergency room visits for skin diseases under the background of improving air quality in China. Based on 45,094 cases from a general hospital and fixed-site monitoring environmental data from 2014–2019 in Beijing, China, this study used generalized additive models with quasi-Poisson regression to estimate the exposure–health associations at lag 0–1 to lag 0–7. PM_2.5 and NO₂ exposure were associated with increased emergency room visits for total skin diseases (ICD10: L00-L99). Positive associations of PM_2.5, PM₁₀, O₃ and NO₂ with dermatitis/eczema (ICD-10: L20–30), as well as SO₂ and NO₂ with urticaria (ICD-10: L50) visits were also found. For instance, a 10 μg/m³ increase in PM_2.5 was associated with increases of 0.7% (95%CI: 0.2%, 1.2%) in total skin diseases visits at lag 0–5 and 1.1% (95%CI: 0.6%, 1.7%) in dermatitis/eczema visits at lag 0–1, respectively. For PM_2.5, PM₁₀ and CO, stronger annual associations were typically observed in the high-pollution (2014) and low-pollution (2018/2019) years. For instance, a 10 μg/m³ increase in PM_2.5 at lag 0–5 was associated with increases of 1.8% (95%CI: 1.0%, 2.6%) and 2.3% (95%CI: 0.4%, 4.3%) in total skin disease visits in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Our study emphasizes the necessity of controlling the potential health hazard of air pollutants on skin, although significant achievements in air quality control have been made in China.

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