A national case-crossover analysis of the short-term effect of PM2.5 on hospitalizations and mortality in subjects with diabetes and neurological disorders

Table 2 Percent increase for 10 μg/m ³ increase in the two days average PM _2.5 : Combined across the 121 communities

		%	95% CI
1) Mortality
All deaths	0.64	0.42	0.85
Deaths without medical conditions	0.60	0.36	0.84
Mortality by previous cause of hospitalization
Alzheimer's disease	1.04	0.36	1.72
Dementia	0.94	0.01	1.89
Parkinson's disease	1.15	0.09	2.23
Multiple Sclerosis	4.01	-0.03	8.21
Diabetes	0.76	0.39	1.12
2) Cause specific hospitalizations
Alzheimer's disease	0.20	-1.26	1.69
Dementia	0.92	-0.44	2.30
Parkinson's disease	3.23	1.08	5.43
Diabetes	1.14	0.56	1.73

1) Total Mortality in all Medicare Deaths and in subjects with previous cause-specific hospital admissions.
2) Cause-specific Primary Emergency Hospitalizations.

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