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Relationships between fixed-site ambient measurements of nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and particulate matter and personal exposures in Grand Paris, France: the MobiliSense study

Bista S, Fancello G, Zeitouni K, Annesi-Maesano I, Chaix B

2024

246 participants

Abstract

Abstract Past epidemiological studies using fixed-site outdoor air pollution measurements as a proxy for participants’ exposure might have suffered from exposure misclassification. In the MobiliSense study, personal exposures to ozone (O3), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and particles with aerodynamic diameters below 2.5 µm (PM2.5) were monitored with a personal air quality monitor. All the spatial location points collected with a personal GPS receiver and mobility survey were used to retrieve background hourly concentrations of air pollutants from the nearest Airparif monitoring station. We modeled 851343 minute-level observations from 246 participants. Visited places including the residence contributed the majority of the minute-level observations, 93.0%, followed by active transport (3.4%), and the rest were from on-road and rail transport, 2.4% and 1.1%, respectively. Comparison of personal exposures and station-measured concentrations for each individual indicated low Spearman correlations for NO2 (median across participants: 0.23), O3 (median: 0.21), and PM2.5 (median: 0.27), with varying levels of correlation by microenvironments. Generally, a large degree of individual variability in the correlation between personal and fixed-site measurements was found for all air pollutants. Results from mixed-effect models indicated that personal exposure was very weakly explained by station-measured concentrations (R2 3 in the active transport microenvironment (R2: 0.25) and for PM2.5…

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