@article{AltEnergy-Ecology-EnvironmentJ, author = {Pramila Goyal and Saurabh Kumarb}, title = { Air Pollution and Respiratory Health in Megacity Delhi, India}, journal = {Journal of Advanced Research in Alternative Energy, Environment and Ecology}, volume = {3}, number = {3&4}, year = {2021}, keywords = {}, abstract = {Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and COPD are major public health problems inDelhi, India. Delhi has a very high number of monthly PTB and COPD clinic visitsand it is also known for its severe air quality status. We investigated the generalimpact of different kinds of pollutants on PTB and COPD over time by analyzingthe variation in monthly clinic visits in respiratory disease hospital during 2012 to2016. We used the generalized additive regression model to determine themonthly periodicity of PTB and air quality in a time series, as well as assessing therelationships between meteorological variables and monthly PTB clinic visits.Meteorological parameter maximum temperature exhibited significant positivecorrelation (r=0.303; p <0.05), and NO2 has significant negative correlation(r=−0.4; p <0.01) with the monthly count of morbidity due to TB and COPD.Generalized additive model (GAM) involving PM 2.5, PM 10 and maximumtemperature as parametric smooth term explain 69.6% variation in morbiditycount with adjusted R2 of 0.43. Similarly, GAM comprising CO, O3 and MaximumTemperature as parametric smooth term explain 69.6 % deviance with adjusted R2as 0.45. GAM containing two-way interactive parametric term of PM 2.5 and PM10 along with meteorological variable maximum temperature explained maximumdeviance 77.3% among all models in the monthly morbidity count.}, issn = {2455-3093}, pages = {1--13}, url = {http://www.thejournalshouse.com/index.php/AltEnergy-Ecology-EnvironmentJ/article/view/298} }