title: Cardiovascular and respiratory mortality attributed to ground-level ozone in Ahvaz, Iran.
abstract: Ahvaz, the capital city of Khuzestan Province, which produces Iran's most oil, is on the rolls of fame in view of air pollution. It has also suffered from dust storm during the recent two decades. So, emissions from transportation systems, steel, oil, black carbon, and other industries as anthropogenic sources and dust storm as a new phenomenon are two major concerns of air pollution in Ahvaz. Without any doubt, they can cause many serious problems for the environment and humans in this megacity. The main objective of the present study was to estimate the impact of ground-level ozone (GLO) as a secondary pollutant on human heath. Data of GLO in four monitoring stations were collected at the first step and they were processed and at the final step they were inserted to a health effect model. Findings showed that cumulative cases of cardiovascular and respiratory deaths which attributed to GLO were 43 and 173 persons, respectively. Corresponding RR for these two events were 1.008 (95% CI) and 1.004 (95% CI), respectively. Although we did not provide a distinction between winter and summer in case of mentioned mortalities attributed to GLO, ozone concentrations in winter due to more fuel consumption and sub adiabatic condition in tropospheric atmospherewere higher than those GLO in summer.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Environmental Technologies Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
authors.forename: Gholamreza
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Goudarzi
authors.forename: Sahar
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Geravandi
authors.forename: Hossein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Foruozandeh
authors.forename: Ali Akbar
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Babaei
authors.forename: Nadali
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Alavi
authors.forename: Mehdi Vosoughi
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Niri
authors.forename: Mohammad Javad
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Khodayar
authors.forename: Shokrollah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Salmanzadeh
authors.forename: Mohammad Javad
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Mohammadi
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010126:Ozone / Q000032:analysis*; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D012621:Seasons
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D010126:Ozone