ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Environmental Health and Exposome
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1543602
Association between exposure to air pollutants and cardiovascular disease mortality in coastal area of eastern China
Provisionally accepted
- 1Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou,Jiangsu, China
- 2Department of Chronic Disease Prevention and Control, Rudong Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nantong, China
Select one of your emails
You have multiple emails registered with Frontiers:
Notify me on publication
Please enter your email address:
If you already have an account, please login
You don't have a Frontiers account ? You can register here
The impact of air pollutants on cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality remains inadequately studied in Rudong, an eastern coastal area of China. This study aimed to investigate the association between air pollutants and CVD mortality in Rudong.Methods: Daily number of deaths from CVD, meteorological and air pollutants data in Rudong from 2013 to 2022 were collected. The generalized additive model (GAM) was employed to analyze the relationship between air pollutants and CVD mortality, and stratified analyses were conducted by gender, age, and season.Results: There was a significant association between air pollutants and CVD mortality. A total of 36,972 deaths from CVD-related deaths were included in the study. We observed that short-term exposure to PM2.5, PM10, SO2, CO, and O3 was positively correlated with CVD mortality. Per 10 μg/m 3 increment in PM2.5 (lag05), PM10 (lag05), SO2 (lag05), CO (lag04), and O3 (lag06) (per 1 mg/m 3 increment in CO), the excess risk of CVD mortality were 0.899 (95%CI: 0.021, 1.785), 0.938
Keywords: Air Pollutants, Excess deaths, Time-series study, Generalized additive model, Coastal area, Cardiovascular Diseases
Received: 11 Dec 2024; Accepted: 21 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Cao, Zhou and Tang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Zaixiang Tang, Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Suzhou Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou,Jiangsu, China
Disclaimer: All claims expressed in this article are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily represent those of their affiliated organizations, or those of the publisher, the editors and the reviewers. Any product that may be evaluated in this article or claim that may be made by its manufacturer is not guaranteed or endorsed by the publisher.