Journal of Environmental Health Sciences (한국환경보건학회지)

Korean Society of Environmental Health (한국환경보건학회)
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An Analysis of Air Pollution Effect in Urban Area Related to Asian Dust on All-cause and Cause-specific Mortality in Seoul, Korea, 2000-2006

도시 대기오염의 위해 평가에 있어서 황사효과 분석 -서울시 총사망 및 원인별 사망률에 미치는 영향-

  • Son, Ji-Young (Department of Public Health, Hanyang University) ;
  • Cho, Yong-Sung (Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, UCLA) ;
  • Kim, Yoon-Shin (Department of Public Health, Hanyang University) ;
  • Lee, Jong-Tae (Department of Environmental Health, College of Health Science, Korea University) ;
  • Kim, Yeon-Jung (Affiliated Research Institute of Seoul Medical Center)
  • 손지영 (한양대학교 일반대학원 보건학과) ;
  • 조용성 ;
  • 김윤신 (한양대학교 일반대학원 보건학과) ;
  • 이종태 (고려대학교 보건과학대학 환경보건학과) ;
  • 김연정 (서울의료원 의학연구소)
  • Received : 2009.05.03
  • Accepted : 2009.06.19
  • Published : 2009.08.30
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Abstract

The objectives of this study were to compare the relative risk of all-cause mortality and cause-specific mortality associated with Asian dust events, and especially to investigate the effects on the susceptible population such as the elderly and children, which were based on the data in Seoul from 2000 to 2006. Both of the study periods with/without Asian dust days, respiratory-cause mortality was the highest, followed by cardiovascular-cause mortality and all-cause mortality in sequence among mortality related to air pollution for all-aged group. As to susceptible group, the relative risk of mortality is the highest for +65 yrs group among all-cause mortality. According to comparison of mortality with/without Asian dust days, the relative risk of all-cause mortality is larger in the model with Asian dust days than the one in the model without Asian dust days among all age group (except for under 15 yrs group) and all air pollutants. The relative risk of cause-specific mortality (except for ozone in under 15 yrs group in case of respiratory-cause mortality, and ozone in all age group and over 65 yrs group in case of cardiovascular-cause mortality) per IQR increase of each pollutant is larger in the model without Asian dust days.

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