Omidi Khaniabadi, Yusef and Raja Naqvi, Hasan and Anbari, Khatereh and Rashidi, Rajab (2023) Risk assessment of exposure to the Middle Eastern dust storms in Iran. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment.
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The aims of this study were to i) assess the relationship between COVID-19 cases with PM10 concentration and ii) investigation premature deaths due to cardiovascular (M-CVD) and respiratory (M-RD) diseases in three classification levels (PM10<50µg m−3 in normal days, 50–200 µg m−3 in dusty days, and >200 µg m−3 in MED storm), by using daily averages of PM10 concentrations. The number of M-CVD and M-RD were estimated by concentration-response model, per 105 people during 2017 to 2021. The results showed that 187, 183, 163, 215, and 206 days were observed with the PM10 concentrations lower than 50 µg m−3 during 2017 to 2021, and 178, 180, 200, 150, and 149 days were subtotal with exceeding PM10 from the WHO guideline (50 µg m−3), respectively. A positive correlation (r2=0.33, p < 0.05) was found to be between the number of COVID-19 cases and PM10 mean concentrations (r = 0.589, p = 0.046). Our findings showed that the highest M-CVD and M-RD were among exposed people at dusty days (50 < PM10≤ 200 μg m−3) in 2019. The total M-CVD and M-RD from 2017 to 2021 were 11.78 and 12.2, 18.25 and 17.4, 22.29 and 23.78, 10.33 and 7.6, 10.37 and 9.95 per 105 people, respectively which 31.48% of health effects were related to PM10 concentrations more than 200 μg m−3.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences > School of Medicine |
| Depositing User: | samira sepahvandy |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2023 05:42 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2023 05:42 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lums.ac.ir/id/eprint/4109 |
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