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

• Published in: PLoS 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
• Language: English
• 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

[...]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...