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A Survey of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases Attributable to PM10 pollutant in the western Half of Iran (Ahwaz, Bushehr and Kermanshah Provinces) with Use of AIRQ Model | Abstract
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A Survey of Cardiovascular and Respiratory Diseases Attributable to PM10 pollutant in the western Half of Iran (Ahwaz, Bushehr and Kermanshah Provinces) with Use of AIRQ Model

Author(s): Sima Sabzalipour, Mehdi Nourzadeh Haddad and Elahe Zallaghi

AirQ software proved to be a valid and reliable tool to estimate the potential short term effects of air pollution. In this study the AirQ2.2.3 model was used to evaluate adverse health effects caused by PM10 exposure in Ahwaz, Bushehr and Kermanshah Provinces during 2011. The adverse health effects of PM10 in Ahwaz, Bushehr and Kermanshah Provinces at 2011 were calculated by AirQ2.2.3 utilizing relative risk and baseline incidence related to health end point defaults. PM10 data was taken from Ahvaz Department of Environment (ADoE). These data were in volumetric base. Conversion between volumetric and gravimetric units (correction of temperature and pressure), coding, processing (averaging) and filtering are implemented for solving such problem. Results show that the non hospitalized patients suffer from the cardiovascular and respiratory diseases attributable to Pm10. The patients from Ahwaz allocate the highest rate of hospital admittance to themselves with 19% respiratory and 20% cardiovascular charts those from Bushehr refer to hospitals 14% for respiratory illness and 15% for cardiac disease and the subjects from Kermanshah go to the hospitals 12% for respiratory complications and 14% for cardiac failures. The last group's statistic is the lowest. The highest rate belongs to Ahwaz becames it has greater concentration of dusty air. Therefore, the higher relative risk value can depict mismanagement in urban air quality.