Association between ozone and emergency department visits in people with disabilities in South Korea: a nationwide case-crossover study.

Association between ambient temperature and the risk of hospital admission for injury in South Korea

Background: Extreme temperatures affect health, but nationwide evidence on injury-related hospitalization and economic burden in East Asia is scarce. We aimed to quantify the nonlinear and lagged associations between ambient temperature and injury-related hospitalization and the attributable economic burden. Methods: T...

Associations between short-term absolute increases in ambient air pollution and hospital admissions and outpatient visits for depression: A nationwide case-crossover study.

Novel evidence is provided that short-term absolute increases in air pollution levels are associated with elevated risks of depression, which is worth consideration in future disease prevention practices.

Association Between Long-Term Exposure to Air Pollution and Parkinson's Disease: Administrative Cohort of Older Adults in South Korea.

Long-term exposure to PM2.5 and O3 was associated with a small but statistically significant increase in PD incidence among older adults in Korea, consistent with a possible association between air pollution and the etiology of neurodegenerative diseases, although effect sizes were modest.

Short-Term Ambient Air Pollution and Acute Osteoarthritis Morbidity Across Population Subgroups: A Nationwide Case-Crossover Study of Hospital Visits in South Korea.

The health burden of air pollution to acute musculoskeletal morbidity in a lower-exposure East Asian setting where these effects remain policy-relevant is extended and evidence to inform targeted environmental health protection in aging populations is provided.

Extreme heat and risk of pediatric emergency department visits: a time-stratified time-series analysis.

BACKGROUND Children are vulnerable to heat, yet evidence on heat-related pediatric emergency department (ED) use in Germany remains limited. We quantified the acute short-term effects of extreme heat exposure on ED visits among children aged 0-18 years in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. METHODOLOGY We assessed short-term...

Short-term effects of ambient air pollution exposure on respiratory hospitalizations among children in the State of Mexico