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

Table 4. Sex or age-specific percent increase of daily mortality of Beijing residents associated with an IQR increase of CO, NO2 and PM10, using 8 df/year.a .

Cause of death Proportion (%) CO NO2 PM10
Nonaccidental mortality
Male 56.2 2.22 (1.47, 2.97)* 2.35 (1.62, 3.09)* 1.43 (0.63, 2.23)*
Female 43.8 2.96 (2.13, 3.79)* 2.77 (1.96, 3.59)* 2.27 (1.38, 3.17)*
45- 20.02 1.36 (0.08, 2.64)* 1.33 (0.08, 2.58)* 1.39 (0.03, 2.75)*
65- 74.42 2.70 (2.06, 3.33)* 2.71 (2.09, 3.33)* 1.82 (1.14, 2.51)*
Cardiovascular mortality
Male 54.75 2.67 (1.63, 3.71)* 2.12 (1.10, 3.15)* 0.96 (−0.17, 2.09)
Female 45.25 3.13 (1.98, 4.28)* 3.24 (2.11, 4.37)* 2.63 (1.39, 3.86)*
45- 16.70 1.25 (−0.66, 3.16) 0.42 (−1.46, 2.30) 0.53 (−1.53, 2.59)
65- 80.77 3.11 (2.25, 3.97)* 2.97 (2.12, 3.81)* 1.97 (1.04, 2.89)*
a

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

*

P<0.05.