{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,20]],"date-time":"2026-08-20T15:17:42Z","timestamp":1787239062841,"version":"build-2736575974"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","issue":"10","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["int j tuberc lung dis"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2023,10,1]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>OBJECTIVE:<\/jats:bold>\n                    To examine the short-term effect of ambient air pollution on daily acute respiratory emergency room visits among adults.\n                    <jats:bold>METHODS:<\/jats:bold>\n                    A time-series study (June 2017\u2013February 2019) was carried out among adults (\u226518 years) visiting a multi-specialty hospital\n in Delhi. We evaluated the association between the daily levels of particulate matter (PM) &lt;2.5 \u03bcm in diameter (PM\n                    <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                    ) and PM &lt;10 \u03bcm in diameter (PM\n                    <jats:sub>10<\/jats:sub>\n                    ), ozone (O\n                    <jats:sub>3<\/jats:sub>\n                    ), nitrogen dioxide (NO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    ), carbon monoxide (CO) and sulphur dioxide and\n daily count of emergency room (ER) visits for acute respiratory symptoms. Generalised additive model (GAM) was used with the Poisson link function to analyse the associations for 0\u20131 to 0\u20137 lag days.\n                    <jats:bold>RESULTS:<\/jats:bold>\n                    A total of 69,400 ER visits were recorded, of which 2,669 were\n by adults due to acute respiratory symptoms. At 0\u20137 lag days, an increment of 1 standard deviation in NO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    and PM\n                    <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                    concentration was associated with a percentage increase in acute respiratory ER visits of respectively 53.0% (95% CI 30.84\u201378.97) and 19.5%\n (95% CI 4.53\u201336.65). During 0\u20137 lag days, a positive trend was observed at higher concentrations of CO (&gt;1.86\u20133.28 mg\/m\n                    <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                    ), while a negative significant association was observed at low concentrations of CO (&lt;1.171 mg\/m\n                    <jats:sup>3<\/jats:sup>\n                    ).\n                    <jats:bold>CONCLUSION:<\/jats:bold>\n                    Short-term\n exposure to ambient NO\n                    <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                    and PM\n                    <jats:sub>2.5<\/jats:sub>\n                    was associated with acute respiratory emergency visits of adults at lag 0\u20137 days.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5588\/ijtld.23.0044","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,26]],"date-time":"2023-09-26T00:32:56Z","timestamp":1695688376000},"page":"761-765","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Short-term exposure to air pollution and emergency room visits for acute respiratory symptoms among adults"],"prefix":"10.5588","volume":"27","author":[{"given":"R.","family":"Yadav","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Paediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"A.","family":"Nagori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, New Delhi, Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"K.","family":"Madan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pulmonary Critical Care and Sleep Disorders, AIIMS, New Delhi, India"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"R.","family":"Lodha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Paediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S. 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