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Open AccessLong-term exposure to ambient PM2.5, particulate constituents and hospital admissions from non-respiratory infection
The association between PM2.5 and non-respiratory infections is unclear. Using data from Medicare beneficiaries and high-resolution datasets of PM2.5 and its constituents across 39,296 ZIP codes in the U.S bet...
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Open AccessThe association between temperature and alcohol- and substance-related disorder hospital visits in New York State
Limited evidence exists on how temperature increases are associated with hospital visits from alcohol- and substance-related disorders, despite plausible behavioral and physiological pathways.
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Using negative controls to adjust for unmeasured confounding bias in time series studies
Unmeasured confounding threatens the validity of observational studies. Negative control variables (NCs) are variables that either do not cause the outcome of interest or are not caused by the exposure of inte...
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Open AccessUnequal airborne exposure to toxic metals associated with race, ethnicity, and segregation in the USA
Persons of color have been exposed to a disproportionate burden of air pollution across the United States for decades. Yet, the inequality in exposure to known toxic elements of air pollution is unclear. Here,...
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Human behaviour and wildfire smoke
Why are some communities more vulnerable to wildfire smoke than others? Burke et al. study human behaviour during wildfire events by leveraging multiple non-traditional data sources, including internet search ...
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A Spatiotemporal Analytical Outlook of the Exposure to Air Pollution and COVID-19 Mortality in the USA
The world is experiencing a pandemic due to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), also known as COVID-19. The USA is also suffering from a catastrophic death toll from COVID-19. Several...
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Exposure to unconventional oil and gas development and all-cause mortality in Medicare beneficiaries
Little is known about whether exposure to unconventional oil and gas development is associated with higher mortality risks in the elderly and whether related air pollutants are exposure pathways. We studied a ...
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Air pollution exposure disparities across US population and income groups
Air pollution contributes to the global burden of disease, with ambient exposure to fine particulate matter of diameters smaller than 2.5 μm (PM2.5) being identified as the fifth-ranking risk factor for mortality...
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Open AccessCounterfactual time series analysis of short-term change in air pollution following the COVID-19 state of emergency in the United States
Lockdown measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic produced sudden behavioral changes. We implement counterfactual time series analysis based on seasonal autoregressive integrated moving averag...
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Open AccessEmulating causal dose-response relations between air pollutants and mortality in the Medicare population
Fine particulate matter (PM2.5), ozone (O3), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are major air pollutants that pose considerable threats to human health. However, what has been mostly missing in air pollution epidemiology...
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Open AccessIncreased respiratory morbidity associated with exposure to a mature volcanic plume from a large Icelandic fissure eruption
The 2014–15 Holuhraun eruption in Iceland was the largest fissure eruption in over 200 years, emitting prodigious amounts of gas and particulate matter into the troposphere. Reykjavík, the capital area of Icel...
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Open AccessTropical cyclone exposure is associated with increased hospitalization rates in older adults
Hurricanes and other tropical cyclones have devastating effects on society. Previous case studies have quantified their impact on some health outcomes for particular tropical cyclones, but a comprehensive asse...
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Open AccessSevere volcanic SO2 exposure and respiratory morbidity in the Icelandic population – a register study
The Holuhraun volcanic eruption September 2014 to February 2015 emitted large amounts of sulfur dioxide (SO2). The aim of this study was to determine the association between volcanic SO2 gases on general populati...
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Influence of the residential environment on undergraduate students’ health
University campuses represent an opportunity to advance the understanding of how the built environment influences health. We used de-identified billing codes from a private university clinic serving undergradu...
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Comparative effectiveness of radiotherapy with vs. without temozolomide in older patients with glioblastoma
It is unknown whether the addition of temozolomide (TMZ) to radiotherapy (RT) is associated with improved overall survival (OS) among older glioblastoma patients. We performed a retrospective cohort SEER-Medic...
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Particulate air pollution from wildfires in the Western US under climate change
Wildfire can impose a direct impact on human health under climate change. While the potential impacts of climate change on wildfires and resulting air pollution have been studied, it is not known who will be m...
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Open AccessHeat stroke admissions during heat waves in 1,916 US counties for the period from 1999 to 2010 and their effect modifiers
Heat stroke is a serious heat-related illness, especially among older adults. However, little is known regarding the spatiotemporal variation of heat stroke admissions during heat waves and what factors modify...
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What is the impact of systematically missing exposure data on air pollution health effect estimates?
Time-series studies reporting associations between daily air pollution and health use pollution data from monitoring stations that vary in the frequency of recording. Within the Air Pollution and Health: A Eur...
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Open AccessThe impact of source contribution uncertainty on the effects of source-specific PM2.5 on hospital admissions: A case study in Boston, MA
Epidemiologic studies of particulate sources and adverse health do not account for the uncertainty in the source contribution estimates. Our goal was to assess the impact of uncertainty on the effect estimates...
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Open AccessA national case-crossover analysis of the short-term effect of PM2.5 on hospitalizations and mortality in subjects with diabetes and neurological disorders
Diabetes and neurological disorders are a growing burden among the elderly, and may also make them more susceptible to particulate air matter with aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 μg (PM2.5). The same biologica...
