Table 1.
No. of deaths per day
|
PM10 (μg/m3) percentile
|
BS (μg/m3) percentile
|
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City | Study period (month/year) | Population (× 1,000) | Total | CVD | Respiratory | 50th | 90th | 50th | 90th | Geographic region | Mean temperature | NO2 (24-hr) | SDR |
Athens | 1/92–12/96 | 3,073 | 73 | 64 | 5 | 40a | 59 | 64 | 122 | South | 18 | 74 | 784 |
Barcelona | 1/91–12/96 | 1,644 | 40 | 32 | 4 | 60 | 95 | 39 | 64 | South | 16 | 69 | 740 |
Basel | 1/90–12/95 | 360 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 28a | 55 | West | 11 | 38 | 678 | ||
Bilbao | 4/92–3/96 | 667 | 15 | 11 | 1 | 23 | 39 | South | 15 | 49 | 711 | ||
Birmingham | 1/92–12/96 | 2,300 | 61 | 50 | 9 | 21 | 40 | 11 | 22 | West | 10 | 46 | 895 |
Budapest | 1/92–12/95 | 1,931 | 80 | 57 | 3 | 40a | 52 | East | 11 | 76 | 1,136 | ||
Cracow | 1/90–12/96 | 746 | 18 | 13 | 0 | 54a | 86 | 36 | 101 | East | 8 | 44 | 1,009 |
Dublin | 1/90–12/96 | 482 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 10 | 26 | West | 10 | — | 940 | ||
Erfurt | 1/91–12/95 | 216 | 6 | — | — | 48 | 98 | West | 9 | 40 | 972 | ||
Geneva | 1/90–12/95 | 317 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 33a | 71 | West | 10 | 45 | 608 | ||
Helsinki | 1/93–12/96 | 828 | 18 | 14 | 2 | 23a | 49 | West | 6 | 33 | 915 | ||
Ljubljana | 1/92–12/96 | 322 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 42 | East | 11 | 46 | 823 | ||
Lodz | 1/90–12/96 | 828 | 30 | 20 | 1 | 30 | 77 | East | 8 | 39 | 1,231 | ||
London | 1/92–12/96 | 6,905 | 169 | 139 | 29 | 25 | 46 | 11 | 22 | West | 12 | 61 | 851 |
Lyon | 1/93–12/97 | 416 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 39 | 63 | West | 12 | 63 | 579 | ||
Madrid | 1/92–12/95 | 3,012 | 61 | 46 | 6 | 33 | 59 | South | 15 | 70 | 636 | ||
Marseille | 1/90–12/95 | 855 | 22 | 18 | 2 | 34 | 56 | West | 16 | 71 | 666 | ||
Milan | 1/90–12/96 | 1,343 | 29 | 23 | 2 | 47a | 88 | West | 14 | 94 | 632 | ||
Netherlands | 1/90–9/95 | 15,400 | 342 | 140 | 29 | 34 | 67 | 63 | 122 | West | 10 | 43 | 757 |
Paris | 1/92–12/96 | 6,700 | 124 | 91 | 9 | 22 | 46 | 21 | 45 | West | 12 | 53 | 644 |
Poznan | 1/90–12/96 | 582 | 17 | 12 | 1 | 23 | 76 | East | 9 | 47 | 1,106 | ||
Prague | 2/92–12/95 | 1,213 | 38 | 30 | 1 | 66 | 124 | East | 10 | 58 | 984 | ||
Rome | 1/92–12/96 | 2,775 | 56 | 44 | 3 | 57a | 81 | South | 17 | 88 | 585 | ||
Stockholm | 1/94–12/96 | 1,126 | 30 | 25 | 3 | 14 | 27 | West | 8 | 26 | 666 | ||
Tel Aviv | 1/93–12/96 | 1,141 | 27 | 22 | 2 | 43 | 75 | South | 20 | 70 | 430 | ||
Teplice | 1/90–12/97 | 625 | 18 | 13 | 1 | 42 | 83 | East | 9 | 32 | 1,173 | ||
Torino | 1/90–12/96 | 926 | 21 | 17 | 1 | 65a | 129 | West | 14 | 76 | 724 | ||
Valencia | 1/94–12/96 | 753 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 40 | 70 | South | 19 | 66 | 820 | ||
Wroclaw | 1/90–12/96 | 643 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 33 | 97 | East | 9 | 27 | 970 | ||
Zurich | 1/90–12/95 | 540 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 28a | 54 | West | 11 | 40 | 666 |
Abbreviations: —, no data; CVD, cardiovascular deaths; SDR, directly standardized mortality rate. Mean temperature in degrees centigrade.
PM10 were estimated using a regression model relating collocated PM10 measurements to the BS or total suspended particles.