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Table 1 Descriptive statistics for the daily hospital admissions for total and cause-specific cardiovascular disease, air pollution concentrations, and weather conditions in Beijing, 2013–2017

From: Effects of ambient carbon monoxide on daily hospitalizations for cardiovascular disease: a time-stratified case-crossover study of 460,938 cases in Beijing, China from 2013 to 2017

 

Mean

SD

Minimum

P2 5

Median

P7 5

Maximum

Annual-average daily hospital admission

 Cardiovascular disease

252

165

9

106

192

405

749

 Coronary heart disease

207

142

2

77

159

340

632

 Atrial fibrillation

13

11

0

4

10

22

53

 Heart failure

32

16

0

20

29

43

90

Annual-average CO concentrations, mg/m3

 

1.2

1.0

0.0

0.6

0.9

1.4

8.0

Annual-average pollution concentration (μg/m3)

 PM2.5

76.9

66.4

0.0

30.0

59.0

102.0

477.0

 SO2

15.3

18.3

0.0

4.0

8.0

19.0

133.0

 NO2

49.7

23.3

0.0

34.0

44.0

61.0

155.0

 O3

95.7

63.0

0.0

49.0

80.8

136.0

366.7

Annual-average weather conditions

 Mean temperature, °C

13.9

10.9

−14.1

3.1

15.3

23.9

32.6

 Relative humidity, %

24.4

26.7

1.1

5.2

7.5

43.4

95.3

 Air pressure, hPa

1016.7

10.3

994.1

1008.0

1016.5

1025.3

1044.4

  1. P25 25th percentile, P75 75th percentile, CO carbon monoxide, PM2.5 particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 μm, SO2 sulfur dioxide, NO2 nitrogen dioxide, O3 ozone