Associations between particulate matter air pollutants and hospitalization risk for systemic lupus erythematosus: a time-series study from Xi'an, China
Pan Y, Fang Y, Chen Y, et al. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 2023.
- Study type
- Other
- Published
- 2023, Environmental Geochemistry and Health
- Identifiers
- PMID 36287357, DOI 10.1007/s10653-022-01409-3
What the authors reported
A time-series study in Xi'an, China linked fine and coarse particulate matter with increased hospital admissions for systemic lupus erythematosus, while finding no significant association between ambient ozone (O3) and SLE admissions.
What limits this result
An ecological, population-level air-pollution study of ambient exposure, not any ozone therapy; cannot show what a controlled medical ozone exposure does in an individual patient.
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