Open Access<p>Acute Effects of Air Pollution on Hospital Admissions for Asthma, COPD, and Bronchiectasis in Ahvaz, Iran</p>
Author(s) -
Hanieh Raji,
Atefeh Riahi,
Seyed Hamid Borsi,
Kambiz Masoumi,
Narges Khanjani,
Kambiz Ahmadi Angali,
Gholamreza Goudarzi,
Maryam Dastoorpoor
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease/international journal of copd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.394
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1178-2005
pISSN - 1176-9106
DOI - 10.2147/copd.s231317
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , bronchiectasis , copd , poisson regression , relative risk , pediatrics , emergency medicine , environmental health , confidence interval , population , lung
Although air pollution is a serious problem in Ahvaz, the association between air pollution and respiratory diseases has not been studied enough in this area. The aim of this study was to determine the relation between short-term exposure to air pollutants and the risk of hospital admissions due to asthma, COPD, and bronchiectasis in Ahvaz.