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Huang, W.* ; Li, T.* ; Masselot, P.* ; Xu, R.* ; Gasparrini, A.* ; Sera, F.* ; Bell, M.L.* ; Hashizume, M.* ; Breitner-Busch, S. ; Tong, S.* ; Kan, H.* ; Yang, Z.* ; Zhang, Y.* ; Yu, W.* ; Yu, P.* ; Zhou, S.* ; Sun, Q.* ; Zhang, J.* ; Lavigne, E.* ; Madureira, J.* ; Guo, Y.L.* ; Gaio, V.* ; Li, S.* ; Guo, Y.*

Improved global air quality health index reveals ozone and nitrogen dioxide as main drivers of air-pollution-related acute mortality.

One Earth 8:101488 (2025)
DOI PMC
Ambient air pollutants are leading contributors to global mortality. Despite the well-established risks, most studies have relied on single-pollutant models in limited regions, leaving the combined effects and individual contributions of pollutants unclear, particularly across countries. Here, we integrate daily mortality and air pollutant (nitrogen dioxide [NO2], ozone [O3], fine particulate matter, and sulfur dioxide) data from 482 cities in 12 countries/territories from 1998 to 2021 to assess the joint mortality risks and identify the main contributing pollutant through an air quality health index of multi-pollutant constrained groupwise additive models (AQHI-Multi). AQHI-Multi outperformed commonly used air quality indices in capturing the overall mortality risks. O3 and NO2 were the leading contributors (accounting for over 70% across countries/territories), with O3's share increasing slightly to moderately in most countries/territories. These findings highlight the need for developing air quality indices using advanced multi-pollutant models and the emerging global significance of targeted control of O3 and NO2.
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Publikationstyp Artikel: Journalartikel
Dokumenttyp Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2590-3330
e-ISSN 2590-3322
Zeitschrift One Earth
Quellenangaben Band: 8, Heft: 11, Seiten: , Artikelnummer: 101488 Supplement: ,
Verlag Elsevier
Begutachtungsstatus Peer reviewed
Institut(e) Institute of Epidemiology (EPI)