{"id":5619,"date":"2023-11-13T12:05:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T12:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2023-11-13T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T12:05:35","slug":"pollutant-meteorological-factors-and-cardio-respiratory-mortality-in-portugal-seasonal-variability-and-associations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icterra.pt\/legacy\/index.php\/2023\/11\/13\/pollutant-meteorological-factors-and-cardio-respiratory-mortality-in-portugal-seasonal-variability-and-associations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollutant-meteorological factors and cardio-respiratory mortality in Portugal: Seasonal variability and associations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Duarte, E. de S. F., Lucio, P. S., Costa, M. J., Salgueiro, V., Salgado, R., Potes, M., Hoelzemann, J. J., &amp; Bortoli, D. (2024). Pollutant-meteorological factors and cardio-respiratory mortality in Portugal: Seasonal variability and associations. <em>Environmental Research<\/em>, <em>240<\/em>, 117491. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envres.2023.117491<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Seasonal variations in cardiorespiratory diseases may be influenced by air pollution and\u00a0<a class=\"topic-link\" title=\"Learn more about meteorological factors from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/earth-and-planetary-sciences\/meteorological-factors\">meteorological factors<\/a>. This work aims to highlight the relevance of a complete seasonal characterization of the pollutant-meteorological factors and cardio-respiratory mortality in Portugal and the relationships between health outcomes and environmental risk factors. To this end, air pollution and meteorological variables along with health outcomes were analyzed at national level and on a monthly basis for the period of 2011\u20132020. It was found that cardiorespiratory mortality rates during winter were 44% higher than during the summer. Furthermore,\u00a0<a class=\"topic-link\" title=\"Learn more about particulate matter from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/earth-and-planetary-sciences\/atmospheric-aerosol\">particulate matter<\/a>\u00a0with aerodynamic diameters of 10 and 2.5\u00a0\u03bcm (\u03bcm) or smaller (PM<sub>10<\/sub>\u00a0and PM<sub>2.5<\/sub>),\u00a0<a class=\"topic-link\" title=\"Learn more about carbon monoxide from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/earth-and-planetary-sciences\/carbon-monoxide\">carbon monoxide<\/a>\u00a0(CO) and\u00a0<a class=\"topic-link\" title=\"Learn more about nitrogen dioxide from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/earth-and-planetary-sciences\/nitrogen-dioxide\">nitrogen dioxide<\/a>\u00a0(NO<sub>2<\/sub>) showed a seasonal variability with the highest concentrations during winter while ozone (O<sub>3<\/sub>) presented higher concentrations during spring and summer. PM<sub>10<\/sub>, PM<sub>2.5<\/sub>\u00a0and NO<sub>2<\/sub>, showed a positive correlation between seasons, indicating similar patterns of behavior. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) applied to pollutant-meteorological and cardiorespiratory mortality data indicates a strong linear correlation between pollutant-meteorological factors and health outcomes. The first canonical correlation was 0.889, and the second was 0.545, both statistically significant (<em>p-value<\/em>\u00a0&lt; 0.001). The CCA results suggest that there is a strong association between near-surface temperature, relative humidity, PM<sub>10<\/sub>, PM<sub>2.5<\/sub>, CO and NO<sub>2<\/sub>\u00a0and health outcomes. The results of this study provide important information of the seasonal variability of\u00a0<a class=\"topic-link\" title=\"Learn more about air pollutants from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/earth-and-planetary-sciences\/air-pollutant\">air pollutants<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"topic-link\" title=\"Learn more about meteorological factors from ScienceDirect's AI-generated Topic Pages\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/earth-and-planetary-sciences\/meteorological-factors\">meteorological factors<\/a>\u00a0in Portugal and their associations with cardiorespiratory mortality.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duarte, E. de S. F., Lucio, P. S., Costa, M. J., Salgueiro, V., Salgado, R., Potes, M., Hoelzemann, J. J., &amp; Bortoli, D. (2024). Pollutant-meteorological factors and cardio-respiratory mortality in Portugal: Seasonal variability and associations. Environmental Research, 240, 117491. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.envres.2023.117491 Seasonal variations in cardiorespiratory diseases may be influenced by air pollution and\u00a0meteorological factors. 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