Chenjie Hua, Wei Ma, Feixue Zheng, Yusheng Zhang, Jiali Xie, Li Ma, Boying Song, Chao Yan, Hongyan Li, Zhen Liu, Qian Liu, Markku Kulmala, Yongchun Liu
A comprehensive health risk assessment of PM2.5 is meaningful to understand the current status and directions regarding further improving air quality from the perspective of human health. In this study, we evaluated the health risks of PM2.5 as well as highly toxic inorganic components, including heavy metals (HMs) and black carbon (BC) based on long-term observations in Beijing from 2019 to 2021. Our results showed that the relative risks of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, lung cancer, acute lower respiratory tract infection, ischemic heart disease, and stroke decreased by 4...
August 2024: Journal of Environmental Sciences (China)