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Risk assessment of the respiratory health effects due to air pollution and meteorological factors in a population from Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania

2007; Elsevier BV; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s1570-7946(07)80225-2

2543-1331

Cristina Petrescu, Uwe Schlink, Matthias Richter, Oana Suciu, Romanita Ionovici, Olf Herbarth,

Radioactivity and Radon Measurements

In the present study we considered two modeling approaches: in the first approach, the hospital admission with chronic respiratory diseases as dependent variable, the environmental data and the days of the week as independent variables in a Poisson regression model were used; in the second approach the annual variation was accounted for and the variable "day" was introduced numbering the day and modeled with a spline. The basic assumption was that total suspended particulate may have a damaging effect that is possibly modified by air temperature and air humidity. The obtained results offer a new contribution regarding protective effect of air humidity and seasonal influences on the relation air pollution —respiratory health.