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We hypothesised that health service use would be higher among those with more exposure to air pollution as measured by the Air Quality Health Index (AQHI).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Setting<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Health administrative data was used to quantify health service use at the primary (physician office visits) and secondary (emergency department visits, hospitalisations) level of care in Ontario, Canada.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Participants<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We included individuals who resided in Ontario, Canada, from 2003 to 2010, who were ever diagnosed with one of 11 major chronic diseases.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Outcome measures<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Rate ratios (RR) from Poisson regression models were used to estimate the short-term impact of incremental unit increases in AQHI, nitrogen dioxide (NO\n                      <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                      ; 10\u2005ppb), fine particulate matter (PM\n                      <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                      ; 10\u2005\u00b5g\/m\n                      <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                      ) and ozone (O\n                      <jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub>\n                      ; 10\u2005ppb) on health services use among individuals with each disease. We adjusted for age, sex, day of the week, temperature, season, year, socioeconomic status and region of residence.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Increases in outpatient visits ranged from 1% to 5% for every unit increase in the 10-point AQHI scale, corresponding to an increase of about 15\u2005000 outpatient visits on a day with poor versus good air quality. The greatest increases in outpatient visits were for individuals with non-lung cancers (AQHI:RR=1.05; NO\n                      <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                      :RR=1.14; p&lt;0.0001) and COPD (AQHI:RR=1.05; NO\n                      <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                      :RR=1.12; p&lt;0.0001) and in hospitalisations, for individuals with diabetes (AQHI:RR=1.04; NO\n                      <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                      :RR=1.07; p&lt;0.0001) and COPD (AQHI:RR=1.03; NO\n                      <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                      :RR=1.09; p&lt;1.001). The impact remained 2\u2005days after peak AQHI levels.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among individuals with chronic diseases, health service use increased with higher levels of exposure to air pollution, as measured by the AQHI. Future research would do well to measure the utility of targeted air quality advisories based on the AQHI to reduce associated health service use.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjopen-2015-009075","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,9,2]],"date-time":"2015-09-02T22:03:59Z","timestamp":1441231439000},"page":"e009075","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Health risk of air pollution on people living with major chronic diseases: a Canadian population-based study"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Teresa","family":"To","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, North York, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Laura","family":"Feldman","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jacqueline","family":"Simatovic","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Andrea S","family":"Gershon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, North York, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, North York, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sharon","family":"Dell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiandong","family":"Su","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, North York, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Richard","family":"Foty","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Child Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Christopher","family":"Licskai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Western University, London, Ontario, Canada"},{"name":"St. Joseph's Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,9,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025121221593495000_5.9.e009075.1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"46","DOI":"10.1289\/ehp.1104816","article-title":"The air quality health index and asthma morbidity: a population-based study","volume":"121","author":"To","year":"2013","journal-title":"Environ Health Perspect"},{"key":"2025121221593495000_5.9.e009075.2","unstructured":"Air Quality Health Index. 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