Health endpoints caused by PM10 Exposure in Ahvaz, Iran

• Main Authors: Gholamreza Goudarzi, Sahar Geravandi, Mohammad javad Mohammadi, saied Saeidimehr, A Ghomaishi, Sh. Salmanzadeh
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Iranian Journal of Health, Safety and Environment 2014-10-01
• Series: Iranian Journal of Health, Safety and Environment
• Subjects: PM10, Respiratory mortality, cardiovascular death, Hospital admissions, Ahvaz.
• Online Access: http://www.ijhse.ir/index.php/IJHSE/article/view/60
• ISSN: 2345-3206; 2345-5535

PM10 emissions are defined as PM emissions that are less than ten microns in diameter. Long exposure of suspended particles as showed in his personal life. PM10 can cause harmful health effects such as the prevalence of bronchitis and reduced lung function in children and adults. Major sources of emissions are causing by human intervention particulate road traffic, stationary combustion and industrial processes. The aim of this study was to evaluate health- effects of carbon monoxide exposure in Ahvaz city (located in south-western Iran), during 2012. PM10 data were collected through Ahvaz Meteorological Organization and the Department of Environment. Raw data processing by Excel software includes (instruction set correction of averaging, coding and filtering) and after the impact of meteorological parameters was converted as input file to the Air Q model. Finally, respiratory mortality, cardiovascular death and hospital admissions respiratory disease of PM10 exposure was calculated. The results showed that the approximately 17% of total respiratory mortality, cardiovascular death and hospital admissions respiratory disease happened when the PM10 concentrations were more than 30μg/m3. The results showed that the concentration of PM10 was related to Ahvaz with an annual average 321 μg/m3. Sum of cardiovascular and respiratory death attributed to PM10 were 1055 and 189 cases in 2012. The higher percentage of these deaths perhaps could be the result of higher average PM10 or because of sustained high concentration days in Ahvaz. Therefore, the higher relative risk value can depict mismanagement in urban air quality.