Influenza

Scientists at University of Hong Kong target influenza

Published in Hospital Business Week, March 15th, 2009

According to a study from Hong Kong, People's Republic of China, "Both influenza viruses and air pollutants have been well documented as major hazards to human health, but few epidemiologic studies have assessed effect modification of influenza on health effects of ambient air pollutants. We aimed to assess modifying effects of influenza on health effects of ambient air pollutants."

"We applied Poisson regression to daily numbers of hospitalizations and mortality to develop core models after adjustment for potential time-varying confounding variables. We assessed modification of influenza by adding variables for concentrations of single ambient air pollutants and...

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Source: Hospital Business Week (2009-03-15)

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