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. 2007 Apr 4;64(7):439–445. doi: 10.1136/oem.2006.029306

Table 3 Odds ratios between stroke occurrence and concentration of air pollutants, Dijon stroke register (France), from 1994 to 2004.

Pollutants Ischaemic stroke (women and men), n = 1487 Haemorrhagic stroke (women and men), n = 220 Ischaemic stroke (men), n = 689 Ischaemic stroke (women), n = 798
ORa (95% CI) p Value ORa (95% CI) p Value ORa (95% CI) p Value ORa (95% CI) p Value
SO2
 D0. 0.978 (0.868 to 1.103) 0.72 1.099 (0.815 to 1.483) 0.53 0.900 (0.748 to 1.081) 0.26 1.044 (0.892 to 1.222) 0.58
 D‐1. 0.978 (0.863 to 1.108) 0.73 1.014 (0.747 to 1.376) 0.92 0.981 (0.813 to 1.183) 0.84 0.975 (0.824 to 1.153) 0.77
 D‐2 1.015 (0.902 to 1.143) 0.79 0.961 (0.712 to 1.297) 0.79 1.109 (0.935 to 1.315) 0.23 0.939 (0.797 to 1.106) 0.45
 D‐3 1.003 (0.892 to 1.127) 0.95 0.954 (0.729 to 1.248) 0.73 1.033 (0.862 to 1.237) 0.72 0.981 (0.841 to 1.144) 0.80
NOx
 D0. 1.008 (0.956 to 1.062) 0.76. 0.974 (0.845 to 1.122) 0.71 1.002 ()0.925 to 1.084 0.95 1.013 (0.943 to 1.087) 0.71
 D‐1 0.966 (0.915 to 1.019) 0.21 1.015 (0.887 to 1.162) 0.82 0.939 (0.866 to 1.018) 0.12 0.987 (0.919 to 1.061) 0.73
 D‐2 0.996 (0.945 to 1.050) 0.90 0.975 (0.851 to 1.117) 0.72 1.013 (0.938 to 1.094) 0.73 0.982 (0.913 to 1.055) 0.62
 D‐3 1.027 (0.975 to 1.082) 0.30 0.936 (0.816 to 1.074) 0.34 1.016 (0.941 to 1.097) 0.67 1.037 (0.966 to 1.114) 0.30
O3
 D0. 1.046 (0.998 to 1.098) 0.059 1.012. (0.902 to 1.158) 0.73 1.058 (0.987 to 1.134) 0.10 1.036 (0.969 to 1.106) 0.29
 D‐1 1.075 (1.022 to 1.131) 0.005 0.974 (0.978 to 1.122) 0.75 1.133 (1.052 to 1.220) 0.001 1.027 (0.958 to 1.101) 0.44
 D‐2 1.012 (0.965 to 1.062) 0.60 0.958 (0.842 to 1.090) 0.51 1.020 (0.951 to 1.092) 0.57 1.006 (0.941 to 1.075) 0.85
 D‐3 0.987 (0.943 to 1.043) 0.60 0.970 (0.856 to 1.098) 0.63 1.000 (0.935 to 1.068) 1.00 0.976 (0.915 to 1.040) 0.46
CO
 D0 0.999 (0.997 to 1.001) 0.43 1.000 (0.996 to 1.004) 0.70 0.998 (0.995 to 1.000) 0.15 1.000 (0.998 to 1.002) 0.84
 D‐1 0.998 (0.997 to 1.000) 0.17 1.001 (0.997 to 1.005) 0.54 0.998 (0.995 to 1.000) 0.19 0.999 (0.997 to 1.001) 0.70
 D‐2 0.999 (0.998 to 1.001) 0.82 0.999 (0.995 to 1.004) 0.88 1.000 (0.997 to 1.002) 0.96 0.999 (0.997 to 1.001) 0.70
 D‐3 1.000 (0.998 to 1.001) 0.93 0.998 (0.994 to 1.002) 0.46 1.000 (0.998 to 1.003) 0.62 0.999 (0.997 to 1.002) 0.72
PM10§
 D0. 1.009 (0.930 to 1.094) 0.82 0.901 (0.730 to 1.111) 0.33 0.973 (0.862 to 1.098) 0.66 1.040 (0.933 to 1.160) 0.47
 D‐1 1.011 (0.998 to 1.094) 0.77 1.014 (0.828 to 1.241) 0.85 0.969 (0.860 to 1.091) 0.60 1.047 (0.942 to 1.163) 0.39
 D‐2 0.960 (0.889 to 1.036) 0.30 1.100 (0.903 to 1.339) 0.34 0.981 (0.877 to 1.098) 0.74 0.941 (0.847 to 1.045) 0.26
 D‐3 0.990 (0.919 to 1.066) 0.79 0.991 (0.881 to 1.212) 0.93 0.985 (0.881 to 1.102) 0.80 0.993 (0.899 to 1.096) 0.89

ORa, adjusted odds ratio for minimum temperature (1‐day lag), maximum relative humidity (1‐day lag), holiday (0‐day lag) and influenza epidemics (0‐day lag) and for an increase of 10 units (μg/m3) of pollutant.

§PM10 data from 1999 to 2004: ischaemic stroke (women and men) n = 762, haemorrhagic stroke (women and men) n = 99, ischaemic stroke (men) n = 357, ischaemic stroke (women) n = 412.