Atmospheric Pollution and Hospitalization for Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases in the City of Manaus from 2008 to 2012

摘要: Introduction. Air pollution has been identified as a serious public health problem in the world’s major metropolises. Recent studies have shown that airborne particle concentrations are associated with wide range of effects on human health, including increased hospital admissions for respiratory disease, enhanced asthma episodes, decreased lung function, and mortality. Objective. To relate levels air cardiovascular diseases city Manaus Brazil from 2008 to 2012. Method. This is an ecological time-series study among children (under 5 years age) elderly (above 60 age). Data daily number hospitalizations diseases, pollutants (PM2.5), temperature, humidity were used. Poisson generalized additive models used estimate association between variables. Increases estimated interquartile (IQR) mean level each variable studied, confidence interval 95%. Results. Respiratory children: −0.40% (95% CI: −1.11, 0.30), 0.59% −0.35, 1.52), 0.47% −3.28, 4.21) PM2.5, humidity, respectively. elderly: 0.19% −0.93, 1.31), −0.10% −1.85, 1.65), −6.17% −13.08, 0.74) Cardiovascular −0.18% −0.86, 0.50), −0.04% −1.10, 1.03), −3.37% −7.59, 0.85) Conclusions. The found no significant hospitalization, unlike evidences provided by present academic literature. Since there quality monitoring network option available was reproduce some information obtained remote sensing, need implementation ground stations environmental region.