Data quality issues in the GIS modelling of air pollution and cardiovascular mortality in Bangalore

• Main Authors: Chinnaswamy, Anitha K., Balisane, Hewa, Nguyen, Quynh T., Naguib, Raouf N. G., Trodd, Nigel, Marshall, Ian M., Yaacob, Norlaily, Santos, Gil Nonato C., Vallar, Edgar A., Galvez, Maria Cecilia D., Shaker, Mohyi H., Wickramasinghe, Nilmini, Ton, Tuan Nghia
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2015
• Subjects: Cardiovascular system—Diseases—Mortality > India; Cardiovascular system—Diseases—Mortality—Geographic information systems > India; Cardiovascular Diseases
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/1532; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/faculty_research/article/2531/type/native/viewcontent
• Institution: De La Salle University

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the world's number one cause of mortality. Research in recent years has begun to illustrate a significant association between CVD and air pollution. As most of these studies employed traditional statistics, cross-sectional or meta-analysis methods, a study undert...