Table 3. Relative risk of asthma admissions associated with change in DMT between selected cutoff points.

Lag effects	1st percentile relative to		25th percentile relative to		75th percentile relative to		99th percentile relative to
	median temperature		median temperature		median temperature		median temperature
	RR	95%CI of RR	RR	95%CI of RR	RR	95%CI of RR	RR	95%CI of RR
0	1.06	(0.92,1.22)	1.03	(0.95,1.12)	1.00	(0.95,1.06)	1.06	(0.94,1.20)
0–1	1.08	(0.92,1.26)	1.03	(0.94,1.13)	1.02	(0.96,1.08)	1.10	(0.96,1.25)
0–2	1.11	(0.93,1.32)	1.04	(0.94,1.15)	1.01	(0.94,1.08)	1.06	(0.92,1.23)
0–3	1.07	(0.89,1.29)	1.01	(0.91,1.13)	1.03	(0.95,1.10)	1.09	(0.93,1.28)
0–7	1.23	(0.98,1.56)	1.09	(0.95,1.26)	0.98	(0.89,1.07)	0.99	(0.82,1.21)
0–14	1.35*	(1.02,1.79)	1.20*	(1.01,1.41)	0.90	(0.80,1.01)	0.83	(0.65,1.05)
0–21	1.53*	(1.09,2.15)	1.28*	(1.04,1.58)	0.83*	(0.71,0.97)	0.68*	(0.50,0.93)
0–30	1.79*	(1.18,2.72)	1.48*	(1.14,1.92)	0.75*	(0.62,0.91)	0.60*	(0.40,0.89)

DMT: daily mean temperature; RR: relative risk; CI: confidence interval.

*P-value<0.05;

1^st percentile: 0.2°C; 25^th percentile: 9.4°C; 75^th percentile: 25.1°C; 99^th percentile: 32.7°C.

Model included the following variables: the time trend, day of week, mean temperature, relative humidity, rainfall,

wind speed and air pollutants.