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. 2013 Oct 18;8(10):e76759. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076759

Table 3. Percent increase of daily mortality associated with an IQR increase of CO, NO2 and PM10 with single model and principal component analysis in Beijing (mean and 95% CI), using 8 df/year.a .

Nonaccidental mortality Cardiovascular mortality Respiratory mortality
Single model
CO 2.55 (1.99, 3.11)* 2.88 (2.10, 3.65)* 2.39 (0.68, 4.09)*
NO2 2.54 (2.00, 3.08)* 2.63 (1.87, 3.39)* 1.79 (0.11, 3.47)*
PM10 1.80 (1.21, 2.40)* 1.72 (0.88, 2.55)* 2.07 (0.21, 3.92)*
After-adjusting collinearity by principal component analysis
CO 0.97 (0.77, 1.17)* 1.01 (0.73, 1.29)* 0.89 (0.27, 1.51)*
NO2 1.04 (0.82, 1.25)* 1.08 (0.78, 1.38)* 0.95 (0.29, 1.61)*
PM10 1.07 (0.85, 1.30)* 1.12 (0.81, 1.43)* 0.99 (0.30, 1.67)*
a

We applied current-day (lag 0 day) temperature and relative humidity and 2-day moving average of air pollutant concentrations (lag01), and applied 8 df per year for time, 3 df to temperature, humidity and barometric pressure.

*

P<0.05.