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Spatial patterns and temporal variations of traffic-related air pollutants and estimating its health effects in Isfahan city, Iran

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Isfahan as an important industrial city has faced with air pollution recently. Thus, we assessed the spatial and temporal trends of ambient PM2.5, CO, SO2, and O3 and for estimating their health effect on Isfahan citizens between March 2018 and March 2019 through the AirQ+ software. Our results showed that citizens of Isfahan in almost 240, 167, and 134 of the days in the year has exposure to PM2.5, SO2, and O3 higher than the WHO daily guideline, respectively. Daily variations of PM2.5, CO, and SO2 concentration showed the increasing trend of pollutants in the morning to evening. The maximum concentrations of O3 were observed in the noonday. Also, the concentrations of these pollutants on Friday due to the holiday effect were higher than the weekdays. Except for O3, the PM2.5, CO, and SO2 concentrations in the cold months and cold seasons was higher compared with the hot months and hot seasons. The total number of deaths because of lung cancer, natural mortality, ischemic heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,, stroke associated with ambient PM2.5 with the attributable proportion (AP) 11.43%, 11.63%, 15.96%, 15.15%, and 13.1% (95% CI) were 683, 19, 2, 202, and 55 cases, respectively. Therefore, the present study provides additional data for the provincial managers and politicians useful in planning proper strategies of air pollution control to decrease exposure and attributable mortalities.

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Acknowledgements

This paper was inspired by the results of a research project no.198202 approved by Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran. The authors would like to thank the Isfahan Department of Environment and Isfahan Air Quality Monitoring Center for providing the required data of studied pollutants.

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Financial support of this research project (no.198202) was by Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

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  1. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Environmental Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-communicable Disease, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

    Yaghoub Hajizadeh & Negar Jafari

  2. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

    Farzad Fanaei

  3. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Qazvin University of Medical Sciences, Qazvin, Iran

    Reza Ghanbari

  4. Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran

    Amir Mohammadi, Ali Behnami & Ali Abdolahnejad

  5. Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran

    Azin Jafari & Mohammad Aghababayi

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Hajizadeh, Y., Jafari, N., Fanaei, F. et al. Spatial patterns and temporal variations of traffic-related air pollutants and estimating its health effects in Isfahan city, Iran. J Environ Health Sci Engineer 19, 781–791 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40201-021-00645-6

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