Ambient air pollution and cause-specific risk of hospital admission in China: A nationwide time-series study

[...]the lung autonomic nervous system may be provoked by pulmonary exposure, which could then result in autonomic nervous system imbalance [15]; the levels of stress hormones may also be altered [16]. Ninety-five percent of the total Chinese population was covered by social health insurance schemes...

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Published inPLoS medicine Vol. 17; no. 8; p. e1003188
Main Authors Gu, Jiangshao, Shi, Ying, Zhu, Yifang, Chen, Ning, Wang, Haibo, Zhang, Zongjiu, Chen, Ting
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published San Francisco Public Library of Science 01.08.2020
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Subjects
Air pollution
Autonomic nervous system
Biology and Life Sciences
Cities
Codes
Disease
Earth Sciences
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Health care policy
Hospitals
Humidity
Medicine and Health Sciences
Monitoring systems
Nervous system
Nitrogen dioxide
Outdoor air quality
Oxidative stress
Patient admissions
People and Places
Pollutants
Population
Social Sciences
China
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Summary:[...]the lung autonomic nervous system may be provoked by pulmonary exposure, which could then result in autonomic nervous system imbalance [15]; the levels of stress hormones may also be altered [16]. Ninety-five percent of the total Chinese population was covered by social health insurance schemes by the end of 2017 [21]. [...]hospital admission records can provide reliable and timely information on the health status of a geographically defined population in China. Since January 1, 2013, class 3 hospitals in China have been mandated to automatically submit inpatient discharge records to the HQMS on a daily basis, in a nationally standardized format. All data used were anonymized and de-identified prior to analysis, under the supervision of Bureau of Medical Administration, National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China. Because the data were analyzed at the aggregate level with no individual identifiers involved, institutional review board approval and participant written consent were not required for this study.
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These authors are joint senior authors on this work.
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:1549-1676
1549-1277
1549-1676
DOI:10.1371/journal.pmed.1003188