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Global burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attributable to ambient particulate matter pollution and household air pollution from solid fuels from 1990 to 2019

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We aimed to estimate the spatiotemporal trends in the global burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) attributable to both household air pollution from solid fuels (HAP) and ambient particulate matter (APM) from 1990 to 2019 and compared the possible differences between the burdens attributable to APM and HAP. The number of deaths, disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and years of life lost (YLLs) of COPD attributable to HAP from solid fuels and APM during 1990–2019 were extracted from the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2019. The proportion of YLLs in DALYs and average YLLs per COPD death were also calculated. Subgroup analyses by sex, age, and socio-demographic index (SDI) were conducted. The estimated annual percentage change (EAPC) was used to assess the temporal trend of age-standardized rate of mortality (ASMR) and DALYs (ASDR). Over the past 30 years, we observed a clear downward trend in COPD deaths attributable to HAP and an upward trend by 97.61% in COPD deaths attributable to APM. The global COPD burden attributable to APM in 2019 was higher than those due to HAP, except in low-SDI regions. For both HAP and APM, YLLs continued to predominate in DALYs of COPD, with an average YLLs per death of more than 10 years in different regions. The ASMR was higher in males and lower in high-SDI regions. The ASMR and ASDR attributable to HAP decreased globally in all age groups during 1990–2019, while those attributable to APM increased among people older than 80 years and in regions with lower SDI. Our study reveals an increasing trend in APM-attributable COPD burden over the past three decades. Comparatively, the global burden due to HAP decreased markedly, but it was still pronounced in low-SDI regions. Continued efforts on PM mitigation are needed for COPD prevention.

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We appreciate the work by GBD 2019 collaborators.

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82041021) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (No.: INV-006371). The funders had no role in the study design or implementation, data collection, management, analysis, data interpretation, manuscript preparation, review, approval, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.

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    Yinglin Wu, Shiyu Zhang, Bingting Zhuo, Miao Cai, Zilong Zhang & Hualiang Lin

  2. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College for Public Health & Social Justice, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, USA

    Zhengmin Min Qian

  3. School of Social Work, College for Public Health & Social Justice, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, USA

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YW: conceptualization, methodology, data analysis, visualization, writing—original draft, and writing—review and editing. SZ: formal analysis and writing—review and editing. BZ: methodology, data analysis, and writing—review and editing. MC: methodology, visualization, and writing—review and editing. ZQ: writing—review and editing. MGV: writing—review and editing. SEM: writing—review and editing. ZZ: conceptualization, data curation, validation, and writing—review and editing. HL: conceptualization, data curation, validation, writing—review and editing, and funding acquisition.

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Wu, Y., Zhang, S., Zhuo, B. et al. Global burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease attributable to ambient particulate matter pollution and household air pollution from solid fuels from 1990 to 2019. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 32788–32799 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-17732-8

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