Outline of Chapters
Chapter 1: Introduction
Initially, this chapter will provide a brief background on air pollution as well as the associated cardiovascular effects from a global and regional perspective. It will also include the objectives of the study as well as a description of the study area and the air quality monitoring sites.
Chapter 2: Characteristics of Air Pollution
Air pollutants (PM10, PM2.5, SO2, NO2, O3) in terms of their chemical composition, reaction properties, emission sources and movement in the environment will be discussed in this chapter. This should provide an in-depth understanding of how these pollutants are released into the environment and their behaviour thereafter.
Chapter 3: Pollutants and Acute Myocardial Infarction
This chapter will provide insights from global, regional and local perspectives on pollutant effect on cardiovascular health
Chapter 4: Methods
This chapter will detail the procedures taken to acquire the air quality data and selected health studies. Information will include steps for monitoring, data management, the systematic review, meta-analysis and methods for Statistical Analysis of trend data
Chapter 5: Results and Discussions
This chapter will provide the results after the analysis from all the air quality monitoring sites. Each pollutant will be analysed and presented separately in order to provide a better understanding of each pollutant level at each site.
Chapter 6: Findings
This chapter will provide a tabulated summary of the concentration trend for each air pollutant at each air monitoring station for the period of record analyzed. In addition, this chapter will also show the outcome of the meta-analysis in a