Estimation of age-related vulnerability to air pollution: Assessment of respiratory health at local scale

► Elucidates age-related vulnerability to air pollution exposure at a city-scale. ► Time series analysis using publicly available data sets. ► Demonstrates short-term association between air pollutants, meteorology and respiratory hospital admissions/mortality. ► PM10 and O3 are positively associated with respiratory hospital admissions in the elderly. ► The most elderly age group (80+) is more severely affected by CO concentration.