Time course of the occurrences of acute cardiovascular events in the Italian city of Brindisi

Author

Balocchi, Rita ; Macerata, Alberto ; Gianicolo, Emilio Antonio Luca ; Mangia, Cristina ; Cervino, Marco ; Carpeggiani, Clara

Author_Institution

Inst. of Clinical Physiol., Nat. Res. Council, Pisa, Italy

fYear

2011

fDate

18-21 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

697

Lastpage

699

Abstract

In a recent study on mortality on municipalities at high risk of environment crisis, significant excesses concerning all causes of death have been localized in the municipality of Brindisi. Focusing on cardiac pathology, we investigated the time course of the daily occurrences of acute cardiovascular events (OCE) leading to unscheduled hospitalization of subjects residents in Brindisi, during years 2001-2008. OCE series was analyzed by Detrended Fluctuation Analysis. The results indicate presence of long-term positive correlation, suggesting a role of atmospheric agents and air quality effects: increase/decrease of OCE following persistent high/low levels of air pollution.

Keywords

air pollution; cardiovascular system; diseases; fluctuations; acute cardiovascular events; air pollution; air quality effects; atmospheric agents; cardiac pathology; detrended fluctuation analysis; long-term positive correlation; mortality; time 2001 yr to 2008 yr; time course; unscheduled hospitalization; Air pollution; Doped fiber amplifiers; Fluctuations; Physiology; Time series analysis; White noise;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computing in Cardiology, 2011

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

ISSN

0276-6547

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0612-7

Type

conf

Filename

6164661