Are Males More Susceptible to Ambient PM Than Females?
| Autor: | Jan G. Kretzschmar, David T. Mage |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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| Zdroj: | Inhalation Toxicology. 12:145-155 |
| ISSN: | 1091-7691 0895-8378 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0895-8378.1987.11463189 |
| Popis: | Recent epidemiologic studies of modern air pollution show statistically significant relationships between fluctuations of daily nontrauma mortality and fluctuations of daily ambient particulate matter (PM) levels at low concentrations. A review of historic smoke-fog (smog) episodes (Meuse Valley, Belgium; Donora, PA; London, UK) was conducted to seek common characteristics of victims of higher concentrations of ambient PM to help identify a susceptible cohort for an effect at lower ambient PM concentrations. The Meuse Valley episode investigation (Firket, 1931) did not detail the age and sex of the victims, so we obtained complete death certificates from all the Belgian villages in the area over the period of the smog (December 1–7, 1930), and these data on gender and age are reported here for the first time. The results show ~50% excess male death rate (36&, 259) consistent with the previously reported excess male deaths in both the Donora Fog (15&, 59) and the London Fog (autopsied cases; 4l9tf, 2879). ... |
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