The Health Effects of Asian Dust in Korea

  • Kwon Ho-Jang (Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Dankook University)
  • Published : 2004.02.01

Abstract

o The risk of being admitted with respiratory disease is increased by 9% on the Asian dust day o The risk of cardiovascular admission is increased by 5% o During the great dust event in 2002, the counts of respiratory admission seems to be increased, but we couldn't observed the epidemic of respiratory disease o The Asian dust events are weakly associated with daily mortality

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