Recently, two graduate students in public health of grade 2020 from the School of Public Health and Management of Binzhou Medical University (BMU) published high-level papers in internationally renowned journals. Feng Shurong published a paper titled Long-term Improvement of Air Quality Associated with Lung Function Benefits in Chinese Young Adults: A Quasi-experiment Cohort Study in Science of The Total Environment (Q1, IF=10.8). Miao Jiaming published a paper titled Life-time summer heat exposure and lung function in young adults: A retrospective cohort study in Shandong China in Environment International (Q1, IF=13.4). Miao Jiaming also published another paper titled Temporal variations of the association between summer season heat exposure and hospitalizations for renal diseases in Queensland, Australia, 1995–2016 in Environmental Research Letters (Q2, IF=6.9).
Feng Shurong's paper analyzes the correlation between the improvement of air quality and the lung function of young people during the COVID-19 pandemic based on the cohort of Binzhou Medical University students built by BMU. The study finds that the improvement of ambient air quality is beneficial to lung function. The forced vital capacity (FVC), forced expiratory volume in the first second (FEV1) and 50% forced expiratory flow (FEF50%) increase by 36.0 ml (95% CI: 6.0, 66.0 ml), 46.1 ml (95% CI: 16.7, 75.5 ml), and 124.2 ml/s (95% CI: 69.5, 178.9 ml/s) respectively for every 5 μg/m3 decrease of PM 2.5. The paper also evaluates the improvement of lung function in China due to air quality improvement through the comprehensive application of a multi-pollutant model. The paper is of great significance for determining the causal relationship between air pollution and lung function and provides strong scientific evidence for the ecological civilization construction in China and the health benefits of air quality improvement in Shandong Province.
Both students are members of the Environment and Health Youth Innovation Team led by Dr. Lyu Peng, an associate professor at the School of Public Health and Management. The publication of such high-level papers in their second year as graduate students bears witness to the success of the graduate training team's innovative mode at BMU and reflects the high-quality development of graduate training at BMU.
Link of the papers:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722052494?dgcid=coauthor
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412021006838
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ac72b8
SOURCE: School of Public Health Management
BY: Yang Liu
