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Table 4 Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals of asthma hospitalization per unit increase in each air pollutant

From: The effects of weather, air pollutants, and Asian dust on hospitalization for asthma in Fukuoka

Models

Mean

Odds ratio (95% CI)

Full year

May–October

November–April

Single-pollutant models

 SPM (per 10 μg/m3)

lag01

0.980 (0.954, 1.007)

0.989 (0.950, 1.029)

0.962 (0.927, 0.999)

lag23

1.041 (1.013, 1.070)

1.045 (1.003, 1.088)

1.042 (1.003, 1.082)

lag46

0.995 (0.966, 1.025)

1.001 (0.959, 1.046)

0.981 (0.941, 1.023)

 Ox (per 10 ppb)

lag01

1.024 (0.969, 1.082)

1.021 (0.948, 1.099)

0.957 (0.876, 1.045)

lag23

1.005 (0.948, 1.066)

1.023 (0.946, 1.105)

0.939 (0.854, 1.032)

lag46

0.989 (0.933, 1.047)

0.950 (0.882, 1.024)

1.006 (0.914, 1.108)

 NO2 (per 10 ppb)

lag01

1.008 (0.930, 1.093)

0.960 (0.840, 1.097)

0.976 (0.878, 1.084)

lag23

1.112 (1.022, 1.209)

1.043 (0.914, 1.190)

1.065 (0.950, 1.194)

lag46

1.043 (0.954, 1.140)

1.080 (0.937, 1.245)

0.975 (0.868, 1.094)

 SO2 (per 10 ppb)

lag01

0.965 (0.677, 1.376)

1.469 (0.835, 2.585)

0.503 (0.312, 0.811)

lag23

1.273 (0.900, 1.802)

1.028 (0.597, 1.770)

0.994 (0.620, 1.594)

lag46

1.002 (0.693, 1.447)

1.255 (0.714, 2.206)

0.689 (0.420, 1.129)

Multi-pollutant models

 SPM (per 10 μg/m3)

lag01

0.977 (0.944, 1.012)

0.971 (0.922, 1.023)

0.987 (0.943, 1.033)

lag23

1.032 (0.993, 1.074)

1.050 (0.993, 1.109)

1.068 (1.008, 1.132)

lag46

0.977 (0.934, 1.022)

0.985 (0.930, 1.043)

0.965 (0.891, 1.044)

 Ox (per 10 ppb)

lag01

1.034 (0.962, 1.111)

1.006 (0.921, 1.100)

0.908 (0.773, 1.066)

lag23

1.017 (0.943, 1.098)

1.009 (0.918, 1.108)

1.013 (0.853, 1.203)

lag46

0.993 (0.923, 1.068)

0.939 (0.860, 1.027)

1.040 (0.869, 1.244)

 NO2 (per 10 ppb)

lag01

1.047 (0.924, 1.186)

0.898 (0.748, 1.077)

1.014 (0.809, 1.272)

lag23

1.128 (0.991, 1.283)

1.042 (0.870, 1.249)

1.189 (0.933, 1.516)

lag46

1.042 (0.913, 1.189)

1.037 (0.861, 1.249)

1.059 (0.822, 1.365)

 SO2 (per 10 ppb)

lag01

1.034 (0.628, 1.702)

2.434 (1.161, 5.103)

0.442 (0.211, 0.924)

lag23

0.755 (0.466, 1.223)

0.566 (0.273, 1.172)

0.480 (0.232, 0.991)

lag46

1.177 (0.706, 1.962)

1.587 (0.757, 3.326)

0.784 (0.335, 1.834)

  1. lag0 Case day, lag1lag6 number of days prior to case day, lag01 averaged concentration during lag0–lag1, lag23 averaged concentration during lag2–lag3, lag46 averaged concentration during lag4–lag6, CI confidence interval