Jiawei Zhang, Youn-Hee Lim, Rina So, Laust H Mortensen, George Maria Napolitano, Thomas Cole-Hunter, Stéphane Tuffier, Marie Bergmann, Matija Maric, Seyed Mahmood Taghavi Shahri, Jørgen Brandt, Matthias Ketzel, Steffen Loft, Zorana Jovanovic Andersen
RATIONALE: Air pollution is a major risk factor for chronic cardiorespiratory diseases, affecting both the immune and respiratory systems' functionality, while the epidemiological evidence on respiratory infections remains sparse. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to assess the association of long-term exposure to ambient air pollution with risk of developing new and recurrent ALRIs that characterized by persistently severe symptoms necessitating hospital contact, and identify the potential susceptible populations by socio-economic status (SES), smoking, physical activity status, overweight, and co-morbidity with chronic lung disease...
March 21, 2024: Annals of the American Thoracic Society