Air pollutants and hospitalization due to circulatory and respiratory diseases in medium-size city

• Grant number: 14/11656-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: September 01, 2014
• End date: August 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
• Principal Investigator: Luiz Fernando Costa Nascimento
• Grantee: Tássia Soldi Tuan
• Host Institution: Instituto Básico de Biociências (IBB). Universidade de Taubaté (UNITAU). Taubaté , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Air pollution causes damage to the health of human beings, but they are few studies undertaken in medium-sized cities. This study aims to estimate the association between exposure to environmental pollutants and hospital admissions for cardiovascular (ICD- 10 I00.0 to I99.9) and respiratory (ICD- 10 J00.0 to J99.9)diseases, in the city of São José dos Campos - SP. It is an ecological time-series study with data obtained from DATASUL and Cetesb in all age groups, irrespective of gender in the period from 01.01.2012 to 31.12.2013. Generalized linear model Poisson regression model will be used to estimate the relative risks of exposures in the outcome - hospitalization. Lags from zero to five days will be considered because the effects of exposure to pollutants can be shown not only on the same day as in later days. Models with an isolated pollutant and all pollutants simultaneously adjusted for minimum temperature and relative humidity will be built.

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

TUAN, TASSIA SOLDI; VENANCIO, TAIS SIQUEIRA; COSTA NASCIMENTO, LUIZ FERNANDO. Efeitos da Exposição a Poluentes do Ar no Infarto Agudo do Miocárdio, Segundo Gêneros. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia, v. 107, n. 3, p. 216-221, SEP 2016. (14/11656-7)