JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (Aug 2024)

Association of Fine Particulate Matter and Residential Greenness With Risk of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Retreatment: Population-Based Retrospective Study

  • Tonglei Guo,
  • Fei Shen,
  • Henan Xin,
  • Jiang Du,
  • Xuefang Cao,
  • Boxuan Feng,
  • Yijun He,
  • Lingyu Shen,
  • Yuanzhi Di,
  • Yanxiao Chen,
  • Zihan Li,
  • Qi Jin,
  • Hongzhi Li,
  • Chunming Zhang,
  • Lei Gao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2196/50244
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10
pp. e50244 – e50244

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Abstract BackgroundThe evidence on the association of fine particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of 2.5 μm or less (PM2.5 ObjectiveIn a population-based retrospective study, we aimed to investigate the influence of PM2.5 MethodsA total of 26,482 patients with incident PTB, registered in a mandatory web-based reporting system between 2012 and 2019 in Zhengzhou, China, were included in the analysis. The exposure to PM2.52.5 ResultsAmong the 26,482 patients (mean age 46.86, SD 19.52 years) with a median follow-up time of 1523 days per patient, 1542 (5.82%) PTB retreatments were observed between 2012 and 2019. Exposure to PM2.532.52.5 ConclusionsLong-term exposure to PM2.5