由于使用固体燃料而造成的家庭空气污染与印度老年人睡眠问题之间的联系
Ritu Rani1,2, Y Selvamani3, Perianayagam Arokiasamy4
1International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India.
Journal of biosocial science
|February 3, 2025
概括
固体燃料造成的家庭空气污染与印度老年人的睡眠问题有关. 通过转向清洁燃料来减少暴露对于健康的衰老至关重要.
科学领域:
- 环境健康 环境健康
- 老年学是指老年学的学科.
- 睡眠医学 睡眠医学
背景情况:
- 家庭空气污染 (HAP) 对健康构成重大风险,但其对睡眠质量的影响,特别是对老年人群的影响,仍未得到充分研究.
- 在许多地区,包括印度,用于家庭用途的固体燃料使用是HAP的主要来源.
研究的目的:
- 调查印度老年人中固体燃料使用和睡眠问题之间的HAP之间的联系.
- 确定调节这种关系的特定因素,如年龄,性别和位置.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自印度长度衰老研究中的50岁以上的51060名成年人的数据.
- 睡眠问题定义为经常难以入睡/入睡或早起.
- 采用多变量逻辑回归和相互作用分析来评估HAP暴露 (固体燃料使用) 和它与睡眠问题的关联.
主要成果:
- 大约12.7%的老年人报告睡眠问题.
- 用于 (OR=1.25) 和其他家庭用途 (OR=1.13) 的固体燃料使用与睡眠问题增加的几率显著相关.
- 65岁以上的个人,女性和农村居民的脆弱性更高,的位置,通风和炉子类型是重要的因素.
结论:
- 固体燃料使用造成的家庭空气污染是印度老年人睡眠问题的重要危险因素.
- 促进清洁燃料转型的干预措施是健康老龄化和改善睡眠质量的基本公共卫生战略.
- 需要针对弱势子组制定有针对性的战略,包括农村地区的老年女性.
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