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Declan Byrne Author
Subjects of specialization
Affiliation
Air pollution, Mortality outcomes, Humidity
Professor Byrne is a consultant physician in general internal and geriatric medicine at St James
Biography
Professor Byrne is a consultant physician in general internal and geriatric medicine at St James’s Hospital. He holds an academic appointment as clinical associate professor in the Department of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College Dublin. He is a fellow of both the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and Edinburgh. Professor Byrne was appointed as the clinical director for the Medicine and Emergency Directorate (MED) in 2019 and was the director of postgraduate education on the St James’s Hospital campus for the period 2017-2020.
Publications
Review Article Open Access
The Outcome of an Emergency Respiratory Admission: Influence of Air Pollution and Humidity
Author(s): Nadim Akasheh*, Declan Byrne, Deirdre O’Riordan and Bernard Silke
Background: Both prevailing air pollution or humidity levels may influence the outcome of an acute hospital episode; we investigated whether higher pollutant or humidity levels on the day of a respiratory admission were associated with worse outcomes.
Methods: Between 2002 and 2016, we studied all emergency medical admissions (96,526 episodes in 50,731 patients) and investigated air pollutant levels (sulphur dioxide) and humidity levels on the day of admission. We employed a logistics multiple variable regression model, to identify the extent to which the prevailing pollutant or humidity levels influenced 30day hospital mortality outcome, stratified by respiratory or nonrespiratory type, having adjusted for other outcome predictors including Acute Illness Severity and Case Co-morbi... view more»
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