Comparing the performance of air pollution models for nitrogen dioxide and ozone in the context of a multilevel epidemiological analysis
| Autor: | Nutthida Kitwiroon, Benjamin Barratt, Evangelia Samoli, Klea Katsouyanni, Joel Schwartz, Sean Beevers, Barbara K Butland, Richard Atkinson, Konstantina Dimakopoulou, Sophia Rodopoulou |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pollution
Global and Planetary Change Epidemiology Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Air pollution Coverage probability medicine.disease_cause Statistical power chemistry.chemical_compound symbols.namesake chemistry Health effect Statistics ComputingMethodologies_DOCUMENTANDTEXTPROCESSING medicine symbols Environmental science Nitrogen dioxide Original Research Article Poisson regression Additive model media_common |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| ISSN: | 2474-7882 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/ee9.0000000000000093 |
| Popis: | Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text. Background: Using modeled air pollutant predictions as exposure variables in epidemiological analyses can produce bias in health effect estimation. We used statistical simulation to estimate these biases and compare different air pollution models for London. Methods: Our simulations were based on a sample of 1,000 small geographical areas within London, United Kingdom. “True” pollutant data (daily mean nitrogen dioxide [NO2] and ozone [O3]) were simulated to include spatio-temporal variation and spatial covariance. All-cause mortality and cardiovascular hospital admissions were simulated from “true” pollution data using prespecified effect parameters for short and long-term exposure within a multilevel Poisson model. We compared: land use regression (LUR) models, dispersion models, LUR models including dispersion output as a spline (hybrid1), and generalized additive models combining splines in LUR and dispersion outputs (hybrid2). Validation datasets (model versus fixed-site monitor) were used to define simulation scenarios. Results: For the LUR models, bias estimates ranged from −56% to +7% for short-term exposure and −98% to −68% for long-term exposure and for the dispersion models from −33% to −15% and −52% to +0.5%, respectively. Hybrid1 provided little if any additional benefit, but hybrid2 appeared optimal in terms of bias estimates for short-term (−17% to +11%) and long-term (−28% to +11%) exposure and in preserving coverage probability and statistical power. Conclusions: Although exposure error can produce substantial negative bias (i.e., towards the null), combining outputs from different air pollution modeling approaches may reduce bias in health effect estimation leading to improved impact evaluation of abatement policies. |
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