At the beginning of the new year, the team from School of Public Health and Management published another valuable article in the Top Journal Environment International (impact factor 9.6) in the first district of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the field of environment and health.
On January 6, 2022, the team from School of Public Health and Management published a high-quality paper titled Life-time summer heat exposure and lung function in young adults: A retrospective cohort study in Shandong China in the internationally renowned journal Environment International. The study is the first in the world to explore the association between lifetime summer heat exposure and lung function in young adults. The study analyzed the effect of lifetime summer heat exposure on lung function and explored the moderating effect of cooling facility use in summer. The study found that lifetime exposure to high temperature in summer was negatively correlated with lung function. For every 1°C increase in average summer temperature, the forced vital capacity (FVC) decreased by 1.07% (95%CI: -1.95, -0.18), and the forced expiratory volume in 1 second ( FEV1.0) decreased by 0.88% (95%CI: -1.71, -0.05). The preschool period is a sensitive period when heat exposure affects lung function. At the same time, the study also found that the lung function of participants with respiratory diseases and those who did not use refrigeration facilities during the summer were more susceptible to the effects of high temperature. The use of fans and air conditioners can effectively reduce the harmful effects of summer heat on lung function. This study qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed the harm of high temperature in summer, which has important practical significance for the prevention of summer high temperature impact on the respiratory system.
The intellectual property of this article totally belongs to our university, with the first author being Miao Jiaming, a 2020 graduate student of our school and the corresponding author being Associate Professor Lv Peng. It is noteworthy that this study comes from a team of students built by our university. The team focus on the impacts of both environmental pollution exposure and health behaviors, such as smoking, drinking and sports activities to health outcomes (physical and mental health). The team have been fully supported by the teachers and students of the 2019 class during its development. The author expresses his most sincere thanks to the participating students in the acknowledgement section of this article. He especially expressed thanks to the Student Affairs Office and the School Hospital for their great efforts in this research and everyone of Binzhou Medical University who has been united together and forged ahead.
BY: Chen Xikun
