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Daily mortality/morbidity and air quality: Using multivariate time series with seasonally varying covariances

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  • Guowen Huang
  • Patrick E. Brown
  • Sze Hang Fu
  • Hwashin Hyun Shin

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We study the associations between daily mortality and short‐term variations in the ambient concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ozone (O3) in four cities in Canada. First, a novel multivariate time series model within Bayesian framework is proposed for exposure assessment, where the response is a mixture of Gamma and Half‐Cauchy distributions and the correlations between pollutants vary seasonally. A case‐crossover design and conditional logistic regression model is used to relate exposure to disease data for each city, which then are combined to obtain a global estimate of exposure health effects allowing exposure uncertainty. The results suggest that every 10 ppb increase in O3 is associated with a 3.88% (95% credible interval [CI], 2.5%, 5.18%) increase in all‐cause mortality, a 5.04% (2.84%, 7.43%) increase in circulatory mortality, a 7.87% (2.4%, 12.9%) increase in respiratory mortality, a 0.76% (0.19%, 1.35%) increase in all‐cause morbidity and a 6.6% (0.58%, 12.7%) increase in respiratory morbidity. Similarly, every 10 ppb increase in NO2 is associated with a 2.13% (0.42%, 3.87%) increase in circulatory morbidity. The health impacts of PM2.5 are not found to be present once other pollutants are accounted for.

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  • Guowen Huang & Patrick E. Brown & Sze Hang Fu & Hwashin Hyun Shin, 2022. "Daily mortality/morbidity and air quality: Using multivariate time series with seasonally varying covariances," Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, Royal Statistical Society, vol. 71(1), pages 148-174, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jorssc:v:71:y:2022:i:1:p:148-174
    DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12525
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