Authors
Martine Dennekamp, Lahn D Straney, Bircan Erbas, Michael J Abramson, Melita Keywood, Karen Smith, Malcolm R Sim, Deborah C Glass, Anthony Del Monaco, Anjali Haikerwal, Andrew M Tonkin
Publication date
2015/10
Journal
Environmental health perspectives
Volume
123
Issue
10
Pages
959-964
Publisher
NLM-Export
Description
Background
Millions of people can potentially be exposed to smoke from forest fires, making this an important public health problem in many countries.
Objective
In this study we aimed to measure the association between out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and forest fire smoke exposures in a large city during a severe forest fire season, and estimate the number of excess OHCAs due to the fire smoke.
Methods
We investigated the association between particulate matter (PM) and other air pollutants and OHCA using a case-crossover study of adults (≥ 35 years of age) in Melbourne, Australia. Conditional logistic regression models were used to derive estimates of the percent change in the rate of OHCA associated with an interquartile range (IQR) increase in exposure. From July 2006 through June 2007, OHCA data were collected from the Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry. Hourly air pollution …
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