Chronic exposure to volcanic environments and chronic bronchitis incidence in the Azores, Portugal

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Autor(a) principal: Amaral, André
Data de Publicação: 2007
Outros Autores: Rodrigues, Armindo
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/1362
Resumo: Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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spelling Chronic exposure to volcanic environments and chronic bronchitis incidence in the Azores, PortugalChronic BronchitisEpidemiologyGasesSulfurVolcanismPortugalCopyright © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.The village of Furnas, like other active volcanic areas in the world, exhibits high levels of hazardous gases. We aimed to investigate the existence of a possible association between chronic exposure to volcanic sulfur gases and chronic bronchitis. To investigate this, we used two populations, one exposed to active manifestations of volcanism (Furnas) and another from an area where no volcanic activity took place for over three million years (Santa Maria), both in the Azores. We used data on the incidence of chronic bronchitis among both populations (1991–2001), obtained from the records of each local health center, and population denominators from censuses carried out in 1991 and 2001, using five age-groups. We also estimated relative risks and mean annual age-standardized rates of chronic bronchitis incidence. Incidence rates were extremely higher in the volcanically active area for both sexes, and especially in the youngest groups. Accordingly, the risk of chronic bronchitis for the people living in the volcanically active area was extremely higher (males RR ¼ 3.99; females RR ¼ 10.74) when compared to those living in the volcanically inactive area. Comparison of chronic bronchitis incidence rates between both populations suggests an association between this disease and the chronic exposure to the volcanically active environment, with all its hazardous gases like hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide. These findings may help health officials to better advice people inhabiting volcanic areas, or others with high levels of sulfur gases, on how to prevent and minimize the risks of chronic bronchitis.Centro de Investigação de Recursos Naturais (CIRN), and Direcção Regional da Ciência e Tecnologia (Government of the Azores).ElsevierRepositório da Universidade dos AçoresAmaral, AndréRodrigues, Armindo2012-05-23T11:53:27Z2007-032007-03-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/1362eng"Environmental Research". ISSN 0013-9351. Volume 103, Issue 3, March 2007, pp. 419-423(5).0013-9351info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2022-12-20T14:29:02Zoai:repositorio.uac.pt:10400.3/1362Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T16:24:12.654487Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Chronic exposure to volcanic environments and chronic bronchitis incidence in the Azores, Portugal
title Chronic exposure to volcanic environments and chronic bronchitis incidence in the Azores, Portugal
spellingShingle Chronic exposure to volcanic environments and chronic bronchitis incidence in the Azores, Portugal
Amaral, André
Chronic Bronchitis
Epidemiology
Gases
Sulfur
Volcanism
Portugal
title_short Chronic exposure to volcanic environments and chronic bronchitis incidence in the Azores, Portugal
title_full Chronic exposure to volcanic environments and chronic bronchitis incidence in the Azores, Portugal
title_fullStr Chronic exposure to volcanic environments and chronic bronchitis incidence in the Azores, Portugal
title_full_unstemmed Chronic exposure to volcanic environments and chronic bronchitis incidence in the Azores, Portugal
title_sort Chronic exposure to volcanic environments and chronic bronchitis incidence in the Azores, Portugal
author Amaral, André
author_facet Amaral, André
Rodrigues, Armindo
author_role author
author2 Rodrigues, Armindo
author2_role author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Amaral, André
Rodrigues, Armindo
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Chronic Bronchitis
Epidemiology
Gases
Sulfur
Volcanism
Portugal
topic Chronic Bronchitis
Epidemiology
Gases
Sulfur
Volcanism
Portugal
description Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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