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Air pollutants are the most important environmental factors that contributed to cardiovascular disease (CVD). The present study aimed to investigate the number of hospitalization due to heart failure (HF) and myocardial infarction (MI) following the air pollutant exposure using a time-series regression analysis with a distributed lag model in Hamadan, Iran (2015-2019). A total of 2091 cases of CVD were registered. Based on the findings, the highest health effects on HF hospitalization were observed with air quality health index (AQHI) at lag 9 (RR = 1.043, 95% CI 0.991-1.098), and air quality index (AQI) at lags 2, 7, and 9 (RR = 1.001, 95% CI 0.998-1.002), for an increase in 1 unit of the indexes, and with PM2.5 at lag 0 (RR = 1.001, 95% CI 0.996-1.004) for 10 μg/m3 increase in PM2.5 levels. The highest health effects on MI hospitalization were calculated with AQHI at lag 10 (RR = 1.059, 95% CI 1.001-1.121) and AQI at lags 1 and 2 (RR = 1.001, 95% CI 0.998-1.002), for an increase in 1 unit of the indexes, and with PM2.5 at lag 8 (RR = 1.002, 95% CI 0.997-1.005) for 10 μg/m3 increase in PM2.5 levels. According to a seasonal classification, results showed that hospitalization in the warm season was higher than that of the cold season. Based on our knowledge, the current study is the first study that investigated the effect of air quality indexes on hospitalization due to HF and MI in Iran. Findings can provide basic information to plan preventive measures for reducing exposure chance and hospitalization rate in high-risk people.
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This manuscript is a part of a funded Ph.D. thesis (no. 9705022515). The authors are grateful to the Department of the Environment for providing data on hourly air pollutant concentrations, the Hamadan University of Medical Sciences for providing the data on hospital admission, and Hamadan’s Meteorological Organization for providing the climate data.
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ML: conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, investigation, resources, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, supervision, funding acquisition, project administration. AN: conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, resources, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. MK: conceptualization, methodology, validation, formal analysis, writing AB: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis. AA: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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• Air pollution effects on MI and HF hospitalization were investigated with the GLM model.
• A higher relative risk was observed for AQHI level than AQI and PM2.5 levels.
• Hospitalization due to HF and MI was more in the warm season than the cold season.
• The health effects in the cold season were observed with more delay than the warm season.
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Leili, M., Nadali, A., Karami, M. et al. Short-term effect of multi-pollutant air quality indexes and PM2.5 on cardiovascular hospitalization in Hamadan, Iran: a time-series analysis. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28, 53653–53667 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-14386-4
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