title: Health benefits of PM10reduction in Iran.
abstract: Air pollution contains a complex mixture of poisonous compounds including particulate matter (PM) which has wide spectrum of adverse health effects. The main purpose of this study was to estimate the potential health impacts or benefits due to any changes in annual PM10level in four major megacities of Iran. The required data of PM10for AirQ software was collected from air quality monitoring stations in four megacities of Iran. The preprocessing was carried out using macro coding in excel environment. The relationship between different presumptive scenarios and health impacts was determined. We also assessed the health benefits of reducing PM10to WHO Air Quality Guidelines (WHO-AQGs) and National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQSs) levels with regard to the rate of mortality and morbidity in studied cities. We found that the 10 μg/m3increase in annual PM10concentration is responsible for seven (95% CI 6-8) cases increase in total number of deaths per 2 × 105person. We also found that 10.7, 7.2, 5.7, and 5.3% of total death is attributable to short-term exposure to air pollution for Ahvaz, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran, respectively. We found that by attaining the WHO's proposed value for PM10, the potential health benefits of 89, 84, 79, and 78% were obtained in Ahvaz, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran, respectively. The results also indicated that 27, 10, 3, and 1% of health impacts were attributed to dust storm days for Ahvaz, Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.|Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Water Science and Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Bagherian
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Marzouni
authors.affiliation: Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
authors.forename: Mahsa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Moradi
authors.affiliation: Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.|Department of Geo-Medicine Engineering, School of Geology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
authors.forename: Alireza
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zarasvandi
authors.affiliation: Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
authors.forename: Shayan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Akbaripoor
authors.affiliation: Center for Air Pollution Research, Institute for Environmental Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Sadegh
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Hassanvand
authors.affiliation: Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.|Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.|Environmental Technologies Research Center (ETRC), Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
authors.forename: Abdolkazem
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Neisi
authors.affiliation: Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. ghgoodarzi@ajums.ac.ir.|Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. ghgoodarzi@ajums.ac.ir.|Environmental Technologies Research Center (ETRC), Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. ghgoodarzi@ajums.ac.ir.
authors.forename: Gholamreza
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Goudarzi
authors.affiliation: Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.|Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad Javad
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Mohammadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Reza
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sheikhi
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Majid
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kermani
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Faculty of Paramedical Sciences, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran.
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shirmardi
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Neyshabur University of Medical Sciences, Neyshabur, Iran.
authors.forename: Abolfazl
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Naimabadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Guilan, Rasht, Iran.
authors.forename: Moeen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gholami
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Health Engineering, School of Health, Guilan University of Medical Sciences, Rasht, Iran.
authors.forename: Saeed Pourkarim
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Mozhdehi
authors.affiliation: Air Pollution and Respiratory Diseases Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran.|Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Water Science and Engineering, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
authors.forename: Mehdi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Esmaeili
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Civil Engineering, K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Kian
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Barari
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis*; D000397:Air Pollution / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002947:Cities / Q000453:epidemiology; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D009017:Morbidity; D009026:Mortality; D052638:Particulate Matter / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000032:analysis*; D012306:Risk
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D052638:Particulate Matter
keywords: Air pollution; AirQ software; Health impacts; Iran; Middle East Dust; PM10