Sean Maher, Stephanie Ryan, Conor O'Brien, Daniel Fraughen, Muirne Spooner, Noel G McElvaney
Examining the approach to medical remediation programmes-an observational study
Irish journal of medical science
diabetes global public health problem impact air pollutants type 2 diabetes mellitus t2dm attracted peoples attention study aimed assess association shortterm exposure six criteria air pollutants t2dm outpatient visits lanzhou china collected data daily outpatient visits t2dm daily meteorological data hourly concentrations air pollutants lanzhou 2013 2019 overdispersed passion generalized addictive model combined distributed lag nonlinear model applied estimate associations stratified analyses performed gender age season models fitted different lag structures including single lag days current previous seven days lag0 lag7 moving average concentrations seven lag days lag01 lag07 positive association multiple air pollutants especially pm25 no2 o38h co hospital outpatient visits t2dm observed largest association t2dm outpatient visits pm25 observed lag06 rr 1013 95 ci 1001 1027 no2 lag03 rr 1034 95 ci 1018 1050 o38h lag05 rr 1012 95 ci 1001 1023 increase 10 g m3 co lag03 rr 1084 95 ci 1029 1142 increase 1 mg m3 concentrations addition people aged 65 males susceptible air pollutants greater impact cold season study showed although air pollution lanzhou improved still statistical correlation air pollution exposure t2dm outpatient visits therefore local government still needs strengthen control air pollution enhance protection awareness diabetic population education publicity