Long-Term Ambient Air Pollution Exposure and the Risk of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases in Rural Chinese Populations: 10-Year Follow-Up of a Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study
Yaqi Zhao, Xuefang Cao, Jiang Du, Aiwei He, Jun Liang, Weitao Duan, Yuanzhi Di, Yijun He, Boxuan Feng, Linyu Shen, Juanjuan Huang, Zihan Li, Jianguo Liang, Hongzhi Li, Zisen Liu, Fang Liu, Shumin Yang, Zuhui Xu, Bin Zhang, Jiaoxia Yan, Yanchun Liang, Rong Liu, Fei Shen, Qi Jin, Henan Xin, Lei Gao · 2025
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Zhao and co-authors follow more than 15,000 rural Chinese adults for ten years to measure what long-term dirty air does to hearts and brains. Most earlier evidence came from cities; rural exposure patterns differ. The cohort spans three sites with contrasting levels of fine particle pollution, tracked from 2013 to 2023 for heart attacks, strokes, and related events. Statistical models linked each person's average exposure to their outcomes.
Every small rise in fine particles — one microgram per cubic meter — came with about five percent higher risk of cardiovascular disease overall. The rises were steeper for specific events: seven percent for ischemic stroke, eight for coronary heart disease, and ten for brain bleeding. The highest-exposure quarter faced clearly more risk than the lowest, and older residents were hit hardest. The authors argue that air quality policy is heart policy, in the countryside as much as in the city.
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| CREATOR | Yaqi Zhao, Xuefang Cao, Jiang Du, Aiwei He, Jun Liang, Weitao Duan, Yuanzhi Di, Yijun He, Boxuan Feng, Linyu Shen, Juanjuan Huang, Zihan Li, Jianguo Liang, Hongzhi Li, Zisen Liu, Fang Liu, Shumin Yang, Zuhui Xu, Bin Zhang, Jiaoxia Yan, Yanchun Liang, Rong Liu, Fei Shen, Qi Jin, Henan Xin, Lei Gao |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |