Short term effects of urban air pollution on respiratory health in Milan, Italy, 1980-89

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 50, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages

  Vigotti, M A ^a,b   Rossi, G ^a   Bisanti, L ^c   Zanobetti, A ^a   Schwartz, J ^d  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c Servizio di Epidemiologia   (Italy)

^d HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SULFUR DIOXIDE;

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; CITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; DUST; HEAT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION DISORDERS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

EID: 0029868467     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech.50.suppl_1.s71     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. Firket J. The cause of the symptoms found in Meuse Valley during the fog of December, 1930. Bulletin de l'Académie Royale de Médecine Belgique 1931;11:683-741.
2. Shrenk HH, Heimann H, Clayton GD, Gafafer WM, Wexler H. Air pollution in Donora PA: Epidemiology of the unusual smog episode of October 1948. Washington DC Public Health Sevice, 1949. Preliminary Report Public Health Bulletin No. 306.
3. Her Majesty's Public Health Service. Mortality and morbidity during the London fog of December 1952. Report No. 95 on Public Health and Medical Subjects.
4. Fairley D. The relationship of daily mortality to suspended particulates in Santa Clara County. 1980-86. Environ Health Perspect 1990;89:159-68.
5. Kinney PL, Ozkaynak H. Association of daily mortality and air pollution in Los Angeles County. Environ Res 1991; 54:99-120.
6. Schwartz J. Particulate air pollution and daily mortality in Detroit. Environ Res 1991;56:204-13.
7. Schwartz J. Dockery DW. Increased mortality in Philadelphia associated with daily air pollution concentration. Am Rev Respir Dis 1992;145:600-4.
8. 10 pollution in Utah Valley. Arch Environ Health 1992;42: 211-17.
9. Dockery DW, Schwartz J, Spengler JD. Air pollution and daily mortality: associations with participates and acid aerosols. Environ Res 1992;59:362-73.
10. Schwartz J. Air pollution and daily mortality in Birmingham, Alabama. Am J Epidemiol 1993;137:1136-47.
11. Schwartz J. Total suspended particulate matter and daily mortality in Cincinnati, Ohio. Environ Health Perspect 1994;102:186-9.
12. Dockery DW, Pope CA. Acute respiratory effects of particulate air pollution. Annu Rev Public Health 1994;15: 107-32.
13. Pope CA, Bates DV, Raizenne ME. Health effects of particulate air pollution: time for reassessment? Environ Health Perspects 1995;103:472-80.
14. Hatzakis A, Katsouyanni K, Kalandidi A, Day N, Tricopoulos D. Short-term effects of air pollution on mortality in Athens. Int J Epidemiol 1986;15:73-81.
15. Toulomi G, Pocock SJ, Katsouyanni K, Trichopoulos D. Short-term effect of air pollution on daily mortality in Athens: a time series analysis. Int J Epidemiol 1994;23: 957-67.
16. Derriennic F, Richardson S, Mollie A, Lellouch J. Short-term effects of sulphur dioxide pollution on mortality in French cities. Int J Epidemiol 1989;18:186-97.
17. Schwartz J, Marcus A. Mortality and air pollution in London: a time series analysis. Am J Epidemiol 1990;131: 185-94.
18. Schwartz J, Spix C, Wichmann HE, Malin E. Air pollution and acute respiratory illness in five German communities. Environ Res 1991;56:1-14.
19. Spix C, Heinrich J, Dockery D, Schwartz J, Völksch G, et al. Air pollution and daily mortality in Erfurt, East Germany, 1980-1989. Environ Health Perspect 1993;101:518-26.
20. Mackenmbach JP, Looman CWN, Kunst AE. Air pollution, lagged effect of temperature and mortality: The Netherlands 1979-87. J Epidemiol Community Health 1993;47: 21-6.
21. Saldiva PHN, Pope CA, Schwartz J, et al. Air pollution and mortality in elderly people: a time series study in Sào Paolo, Brazil. Arch Environ Health 1995;50:159-63.
22. Xu X, Gao J, Dockery D, Chen Y. Air pollution and daily mortality in residential areas of Beijing, China. Arch Environ Health 1994;49:216-22.
23. Bates DV, Szito R: Hospital admission and air pollutants in Southern Ontario: the acid summer haze effect. Environ Res 1987;43:317-31.
24. Thurston GD, Ito K, Kinney PL, Lippmann M: A multiyear study of air pollution and respiratory hospital admissions in three New York State metropolitan areas results for 1988 and 1989 summers. Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology 1992;2:429-50.
25. Schwartz J, Koeing J, Slater D, Larsori T. Particulate air pollution and hospital emergency visits for asthma in Seattle. Am Rev Respir Dis 1993;147:826-31.
26. Burnett RT, Dales RE, Raizenne ME, et al. Effects of low ambient levels of ozone and sulfates on the frequency of respiratory admissions to Ontario hospitals. Environ Res 1994;65:172-94.
27. Schwartz J. Air pollution and hospital admission for the elderly in Birmingham AL. Am J Epidemiol 1994;139: 589-90.
28. Schwartz J. Air pollution and hospital admissions for elderly in Detroit, MI. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 1994;150: 648-55.
29. Schwartz J. Air pollution and hospital admissions for elderly in Minneapolis. Arch Environ Health 1994;49:366-74.
30. Schwartz J. Short term fluctuations in air pollution and hospital admissions of the elderly for respiratory disease. Thorax 1995;50:531-38.
31. Schwartz J. Air pollution and hospital admissions for respiratory disease. Epidemiology 1996;7:20-28.
32. Sunyer J, Antó JM, Murillo C, Saez M. Effects of Urban air pollution on Emergency room admission for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Epidemiol 1991;134: 277-89.
33. Ponka A. Asthma and low levels of air pollution in Helsinki. Arch Environ Health 1990;46:90-7.
34. Sunyer J, Saez M, Murillo C, Castellsague J, Martinez F, Antó JM. Air pollution and emergency room admissions for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases: a 5-year study. Am J Epidemiol 1993;137:701-5.
35. Katsouyanni K, Zmirou D, Spix C, et al. Short-term effects of air pollution on health: a European approach using epidemiologic time-series data. The APHEA project: background, objectives, design. Eur Respir J 1995;81030-38.
36. Vigotti MA, Rossi G, Zanobetti A, et al. Inquinamento atmosferico e mortalità giornaliera nei residenti a Milano, 1980-89. Risultati preliminari. Epidemiol Prev 1995;19: 85-9.
37. Greenland S. Tests for interaction in epidemiologic studies: a review and a study of power. Stat Med 1983;2:243-51.