Cardiologists' awareness of the impact of air pollution on cardiovascular disease in Vietnam and the Philippines - Multiple logistic regression modelling

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Center for Engineering and Sustainable Development Research

Document Type

Article

Source Title

Proceedings - 4th International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE 2011

First Page

81

Last Page

85

Publication Date

12-1-2011

Abstract

The air pollution situation in Vietnam and the Philippines has deteriorated in recent years, and mortality rates from cardiovascular diseases (CVD) have remained in the top ten of all causes of deaths for the last few years. The aim of this paper is to understand and model the awareness of cardiologists of the potential impact of air pollution on CVD in both nations. A full-scale survey covering 321 cardiologists was conducted in Vietnam (27 hospitals across the country) and the Philippines (members of the Philippine Heart Association with a subset from Davao Province). The paper reports on extensive results obtained through logistic regression modelling. © 2011 IEEE.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1109/DeSE.2011.41

Disciplines

Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

Keywords

Cardiovascular system—Diseases; Air—Pollution—Physiological effect

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