Objectives Air pollution contributes to mortality and morbidity. We estimated the impact of
outdoor air pollution on public health in Seoul metropolitan area, Korea. Attributable cases …

Evidence concerning short-term acute association between air pollutants and hospital
admissions for respiratory diseases among children in a multi-city setting was quite limited …

This study explored the short-term effects of air pollutants (PM2. 5, PM10, SO2, NO2, O38h,
and CO) on pneumonia-related hospital admissions in Lanzhou (an ex-heavily polluted city …

Background Most studies on the short-term health effects of air pollution have been
conducted on a daily time scale, while hourly associations remain unclear. Methods We …

Background China has experienced increasingly severe levels of air pollution in the past
decades, yet studies on the health effects of air pollution in China at a national study level …

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the hypothesis that air pollution could increase emergency room
visits for respiratory diseases, and if so, to quantify the strength of association between …

Objective This study aimed to explore the time-series relationship between air pollutants and
the number of children's respiratory outpatient visits in coastal cities. Methods We used time …

The health effects of short-term exposure to air pollutants on respiratory deaths and its
modifiers such as meteorological indexes have been widely investigated. However, most of …

Few studies exist in China examining the association of ambient air pollution with morbidity
outcomes. We conducted a time-series analysis to examine the association of outdoor air …

Pollution caused by PM2. 5 and O3 are common environmental problems which can easily
affect human health. Chengdu is a major central city in Western China, and there is little …