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Table 6 Summary of the studies on air pollution and mortality from all respiratory disease (excess risk per 10 μg/m 3 )

From: Long-term air pollution exposure and cardio- respiratory mortality: a review

Study Name

Pollutant

Conca(μg/m3)

Spatial scaleb

% change in risk (95% CI) in mortality per 10 μg/m3

References

AHSMOG

PM10

51 (17)

Address (Inter)

6 (−1, 15)

[40]

ACS study

PM2.5

17 (5)

City

−8 (−14, -2)

[39]

Oslo cohort

NOx

11 (1 – 168)

Address (DISP)

16 (6, 26)

[68]

Harvard six cities

PM2.5

15 (10–22)

City

8 (−21, 49)

[14]

Netherlands Cohort Study

PM2.5

28 (23–37)

Address (LUR)

7 (−25, 52)

[23]

Netherlands Cohort Study

NO2

37 (15–67)

Address (LUR)

12 (0, 26)

[23]

California Teachers study

PM2.5

18 (7–39)

Address (near)

3 (−20, 34)

[27]

China national. hypertension survey

NOx

50 (20 – 122)

City

3 (0, 6)

[31]

China national. hypertension survey

TSP

289 (113 – 499)

City

0.3 (−1,1)

[31]

US truckers study

PM2.5

14 (4)

Address (near)

20 (−9, 60)

[32]

US truckers study

NO2

28 (14)

Address (LUR)

15 (1,31)

[32]

California Teachers study

PM2.5

16 (3–28)

Address (Inter)

21 (−3, 52)

[36]

New Zealand Census study

PM10

8 (0 – 19)

Census tract (Disp)

14 (5, 23)

[35]

Shenyang cohort study

PM10

154 (78 – 274)

District (mean)

67 (60, 74)

[59]

Shenyang cohort study

NO2

46 (18–78)

District (mean)

197 (169, 227)

[59]

Shizuoka elderly cohort

NO2

25 (−19, 75)

Address (LUR)

19 (2, 38)

[70]

Two Scotch cohorts

BS

19

LUR + temporal

11 (−3, 28)

[67]

Rome longitudinal study

PM2.5

23 (7 – 32)

Address (DISP, 1 km grid)

3 (−3, 8)

[38]

  1. a Mean with minimum – maximum in parentheses (μg/m3). One number in parentheses is standard deviation.
  2. b Spatial scale of exposure assignment, in parentheses exposure assignment method. City = average of monitors within the city; Near = nearest monitor concentration; LUR = land use regression; Disp = dispersion modeling; Inter = interpolation.
  3. Studies adjusted for individual smoking except references [26, 28, 30, 34, 38, 56].