The Impact of Ambient Temperature on Pulmonary Morbidity among a Chinese Urban Population英文电子书.pdf

Pol. J. Environ. Stud. Vol. 22, No. 3 (2013), 707-716 Original Research The Impact of Ambient Temperature on Pulmonary Morbidity among a Chinese Urban Population 1 2 2 3 1 Yu Jie , Zhang Long Ju , Liu Xiao Li , Jin Hai , Xu Jie * 1School of Public Health, Zunyi Medical College, 2First Department of Respiratory Diseases, First Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical College, 3Department of Gastroenterology, First Affiliated Hospital of Zunyi Medical College, Zunyi, Guizhou, 563003, P.R. of China Received: 16 May 2012 Accepted: 14 September 2012 Abstract Zunyi is a city seriously polluted by acid rain in southwest China. Few studies have been performed in the region to investigate the respiratory health impact of meteorological conditions. In this study, we did an ecological time-series study to examine the association between climatic parameters (mainly of temperature) and daily numbers of hospital outpatient visits for respiratory diseases in Zunyi. Daily pulmonary morbidity and meteorological data from 1 January 2007 to 1 January 2010 in Zunyi were obtained. A generalized addi- tive model (GAM) in a Poisson regression was used to model the relationship between air temperature and pulmonary morbidity. For