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Ambient PM2.5 and Annual Lung Cancer Incidence: A Nationwide Study in 295 Chinese Counties

International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020-02, Vol.17 (5), p.1481 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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  • Title:
    Ambient PM2.5 and Annual Lung Cancer Incidence: A Nationwide Study in 295 Chinese Counties
  • Author: Guo, Huagui ; Li, Weifeng ; Wu, Jiansheng
  • Subjects: Age ; Air pollution ; Annual reports ; Carcinogens ; Datasets ; Developed countries ; Developing countries ; Exposure ; Females ; Gene expression ; Health risk assessment ; Industrialized nations ; LDCs ; Lung cancer ; Males ; Mortality ; Particulate matter ; Population ; Precipitation ; Regression analysis ; Regression models ; Socio-economic aspects ; Studies ; Temperature
  • Is Part Of: International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020-02, Vol.17 (5), p.1481
  • Description: Most studies have examined PM2.5 effects on lung cancer mortalities, while few nationwide studies have been conducted in developing countries to estimate the effects of PM2.5 on lung cancer incidences. To fill this gap, this work aims to examine the effects of PM2.5 exposure on annual incidence rates of lung cancer for males and females in China. We performed a nationwide analysis in 295 counties (districts) from 2006 to 2014. Two regression models were employed to analyse data controlling for time, location and socioeconomic characteristics. We also examined whether the estimates of PM2.5 effects are sensitive to the adjustment of health and behaviour covariates, and the issue of the changing cancer registries each year. We further investigated the modification effects of region, temperature and precipitation. Generally, we found significantly positive associations between PM2.5 and incidence rates of lung cancer for males and females. If concurrent PM2.5 changes by 10 g/m , then the incidence rate relative to its baseline significantly changes by 4.20% (95% CI: 2.73%, 5.88%) and 2.48% (95% CI: 1.24%, 4.14%) for males and females, respectively. The effects of exposure to PM2.5 were still significant when further controlling for health and behaviour factors or using 5 year consecutive data from 91 counties. We found the evidence of long-term lag effects of PM2.5. We also found that temperature appeared to positively modify the effects of PM2.5 on the incidence rates of lung cancer for males. In conclusion, there were significantly adverse effects of PM2.5 on the incidence rates of lung cancer for both males and females in China. The estimated effect sizes might be considerably lower than those reported in developed countries. There were long-term lag effects of PM2.5 on lung cancer incidence in China.
  • Publisher: Switzerland: MDPI AG
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1660-4601
    ISSN: 1661-7827
    EISSN: 1660-4601
    DOI: 10.3390/ijerph17051481
    PMID: 32106556
  • Source: GFMER Free Medical Journals
    PubMed Central
    ProQuest Central

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