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Table 1 Daily emergency hospital visits, pollutant levels and meteorological variables in Reykjavík 2003-2009

From: Ozone is associated with cardiopulmonary and stroke emergency hospital visits in Reykjavík, Iceland 2003–2009

 

n (%)

Mean

Std. dev

Min-imum

Max-imum

Percentiles

      

25th

50th

75th

Emergency hospital visits

All

24439 (100%)

9.6

3.8

0

26

7

9

12

Cardiaca

18782 (76.9%)

7.3

3.3

0

20

5

7

9

Strokeb

4082 (16.7%)

1.6

1.3

0

8

1

1

2

Pulmonaryc

1575 (6.4%)

0.6

0.8

0

5

0

0

1

Female

10269 (42.0%)

4.0

2.2

0

14

2

4

5

Male

14170 (58.0%)

5.5

2.6

0

16

4

5

7

Age 70 years or older

14862 (60.8%)

5.8

2.7

0

19

4

6

7

Pollutants & meteorological variables

O3 (μg/m3)d

2355 (92.1%)

47.3

16.8

1.4

119.4

36.3

46.1

57.2

NO2 (μg/m3)

2372 (92.8%)

22.1

13.6

1.5

111.6

12.0

19.2

28.6

PM10 (μg/m3)

2396 (93.7%)

21.2

19.8

1.3

261.1

11.0

15.6

23.6

Temperature (°C)

2533 (99.1%)

6.0

5.2

−11.3

21.2

2.3

6.2

10.4

Relative humidity (%)

2533 (99.1%)

78.0

10.8

39.3

100.0

70.5

79.6

86.3

  1. Daily counts for emergency hospital visits were available for all days. n denotes the total number of emergency hospital visits. For pollutants and meteorological variables, n denotes the number of days with data available. The total number of days in the period is 2557.
  2. Std. dev; Standard deviation.
  3. a Cardiac disease (ICD10 codes starting with I20-I27, I46, I48 and I50).
  4. b Stroke (Cerebrovascular disease) (ICD10 codes starting with I61-I69 and G45-G46).
  5. c Pulmonary diseases (ICD10 codes starting with J20-J22, J40-J46 and J96).
  6. d Maximum daily 8-hour mean, daily 24-hour mean for other exposure variables.