Daily time-series studies with air pollution exposures and myocardial infarction (MI) outcomes: summary interpretation
| First author and year | Significant effect of exposure? | Adjusted for season and trend? | MI events: validation or specified criteria | Adjusted for temperature | Adjusted for infectious disease levels | Adjusted for day of week? | Investigated different lag effects? | |||||||
| PM2.5 | PM10 | O3 | CO | NO2 | SO2 | Other particulate exposures | Other non-particle exposures | |||||||
| Daily time-series studies | ||||||||||||||
| Fatal and non-fatal events | ||||||||||||||
| Cendon 200611 | – | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | – | – | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lanki 200612 | – | No | No | Yes | No | – | No (PNC) | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Koken 200313 | – | No | Protective effect | No | No | No | – | – | N/A* | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mann 20025 | – | No | Protective effect | Yes | Yes | – | – | – | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ye 200114 | – | No | No | No | Yes | No | – | – | N/A* | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Linn 200015 | – | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | – | – | – | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Poloniecki 199716 | – | – | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes (BS) | – | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Fatal events only | ||||||||||||||
| Murakami 200617 | – | – | – | – | – | – | Yes (TSP) | – | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Sharovsky 200418 | – | No | – | No | – | Yes | – | – | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rossi 199919 | – | – | – | – | – | – | Yes (TSP) | – | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Case-crossover studies | ||||||||||||||
| Fatal and non-fatal events | ||||||||||||||
| Barnett 200620 | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | – | – | – | N/A† | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Zanobetti 200621 | Yes | – | No | No | Yes | – | Yes (BC) | – | N/A† | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| No (PM non-traffic) | ||||||||||||||
| Peters 200522 | No | – | Protective effect | No | No | Yes | No (TNC) | – | N/A† | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ruidavets 200523 | – | – | No | – | No | No | – | – | N/A† | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sullivan 200524 | No | – | – | No | – | No | – | – | N/A† | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Zanobetti 200525 | – | Yes | – | – | – | – | – | – | N/A† | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Peters 200426 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | Yes (exposure to traffic) | N/A† | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| D’Ippoliti 200327 | – | – | – | Yes | No | No | Yes (TSP) | – | N/A† | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Peters 200128 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No (coarse mass, BC) | – | N/A† | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
*Adjustment for season not applicable since study used data from summer months only; †case-crossover design allows for season and trend by design.
BC, black carbon; BS, black smoke; PNC, particle number concentration; TNC, total number concentration; TSP, total suspended particulate.