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Publicly available data reveals association between asthma hospitalizations and unconventional natural gas development in Pennsylvania

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  • Anna Bushong
  • Thomas McKeon
  • Mary Regina Boland
  • Jeffrey Field

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Since the early 2000s, unconventional natural gas development (UNGD) has rapidly grown throughout Pennsylvania. UNGD extracts natural gas using a relatively new method known as hydraulic fracturing (HF). Here we addressed the association of HF with asthma Hospitalization Admission Rates (HAR) using publicly available data. Using public county-level data from the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PA-DOH) and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection for the years 2001–2014, we constructed regression models to study the previously observed association between asthma exacerbation and HF. After considering multicollinearity, county-level demographics and area-level covariables were included to account for known asthma risk factors. We found a significant positive association between the asthma HAR and annual well density for all the counties in the state (3% increase in HAR attributable to HF, p

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  • Anna Bushong & Thomas McKeon & Mary Regina Boland & Jeffrey Field, 2022. "Publicly available data reveals association between asthma hospitalizations and unconventional natural gas development in Pennsylvania," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(3), pages 1-13, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0265513
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265513
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