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메타분석 방법을 적용한 서울시 대기오염과 조기사망의 상관성 연구 (1991년~1995년)

Other Titles
A Meta-analysis of Ambient Air Pollution in Relation to Daily Mortality in Seoul, 1991~1995
Authors
김춘배  ;  지선하  ;  정용  ;  이종태
Citation
Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine (예방의학회지), Vol.32(1) : 177-182, 1999
Journal Title
Korean Journal of Preventive Medicine (예방의학회지)
ISSN
0254-5985
Issue Date
1999
Keywords
Air pollution epidemiology ; Daily mortality ; Meta- analysis ; Epidemiologic method
Abstract
Objectives: To reexamine the association between air pollution and daily mortality in Seoul, Korea using a method of meta-analysis with the data filed for 1991 through 1995. Methods: A separate Poisson regression analysis on each district within the metropolitan area of Seoul was conducted to regress daily death counts on levels of each ambient air pollutant, such as total suspended particulates (TSP), sulfur dioxide $(SO_2)$, and ozone $(O_3)$, controlling for variability in the weather condition. We calculated a weighted mean as a meta-analysis summary of the estimates and its standard error. Results: We found that the p value from each pollutant model to test the homogeneity assumption was small (p<0.01) because of the large disparity among district-specific estimates. Therefore, all results reported here were estimated from the random effect model. Using the weighted mean that we calculated, the mortality at a $100{\mu}g/m^3$ increment in a 3-day moving average of TSP levels was 1.034 (95% Cl 1.009-1.059). The mortality was estimated to increase 6% (95% Cl 3-10%) and 3% (95% Cl 0-6%) with each 50 ppb increase for 9-day moving average of SO2 and 1-hr maximum O3, respectively. Conclusions: Like most of air pollution epidemiologic studies, this meta-analysis cannot avoid fleeing from measurement misclassification since no personal measurement was taken. However, we can expect that a measurement bias be reduced in a district-specific estimate since a monitoring station is hefter representative cf air quality of the matched district. The similar results to those from the previous studios indicated existence of health effect of air pollution at current levels in many industrialized countries, including Korea.
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