Table 1.

Average annual incidence rate of prostate cancer per 100,000 for counties within the first and third quartiles of pollution indices and meteorological parameters used in this study.

	First quartile	Third quartile
Shortwave radiation	164.97 (1.41)*	141.35(1.14)
HDD	134.62(1.22)	168.11(1.39)
Snowfall	135.04(1.24)	163.66(1.42)
Rainfall	164.69 (1.60)	131.82(1.32)
Permitted air emissions	142.96(1.09)	149.01(1.12)
Acres of land used to grow crops	142.09(1.29)	157.14(1.53)

*(standard error of the mean)