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[Meta-analysis of acute health effects caused by atmospheric particulate matter and the implementation with R
Yawei Li1, Moning Guo2, Chengcheng Li1
1National Institute of Environmental Health, China CDC, Beijing 100021, China.
Objective:
To introduce the Meta-analysis of acute health effects caused by atmospheric particulate matter and explore the R software implementation.
Methods:
Used literature data as an example, pooled the risk estimates of mortality due to respiratory disease exposure to PM_(10) in the Chinese population from 1990 to 2013 using R software.
Results:
The overall risk estimates RR was 1. 0041(95% CI 1. 0028-1. 0054), there was publication bias, the RR was reduced to 1. 0015(95%CI 1. 0002-1. 0029)after adjust the asymmetry with the trim-and-fill method.
Conclusion:
R software has relatively abundant software packages to conduct the Meta-analysis for assessing the acute health impact exposure to atmospheric particulate matter.
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