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. 2017 Mar 9;7:44004. doi: 10.1038/srep44004

Table 3. Mean and within-day standard deviation (stdwd) of meteorological and air pollutant factors, averaged over specific hospital-days stratified by temperature (T) and air pressure (AP).

  high T (>26 °C) mild T (21–26 °C) low T (<21 °C) p value!
  low AP (<1009 hpa) high AP (≥1009 hpa) low AP high AP low AP high AP
Number of hospital-days 6288 748 2274 3021 164 6537
RH Mean 73.54 ± 6.47 75.61 ± 4.55 73.47 ± 10.18 72.97 ± 8.21 79.05 ± 6.38 72.2 ± 9.89 <0.001
  stdwd 8.71 8.78 8.8 8.94 7.23 8.21  
CO Mean 0.48 ± 0.24 0.6 ± 0.25 0.58 ± 0.27 0.62 ± 0.26 0.57 ± 0.26 0.65 ± 0.46 <0.001
  stdwd 0.25 0.29 0.27 0.3 0.22 0.3  
NO2 Mean 15.92 ± 7.2 19.08 ± 7.62 20.51 ± 8.27 22.19 ± 8.48 20.18 ± 8.58 22.12 ± 8.2 <0.001
  stdwd 7.06 8.07 8.79 9.25 8.68 9.08  
PM10 Mean 50.06 ± 22.44 71.48 ± 31.3 64.24 ± 30.96 72.51 ± 41.43 56.19 ± 33.36 66.69 ± 34.72 <0.001
  stdwd 14.81 21.48 22.74 22.41 20.24 22.17  
PM2.5 Mean 29.57 ± 13.9 41.18 ± 19.25 37.08 ± 17.14 40.28 ± 21.51 35.1 ± 22.29 37.19 ± 18.62 <0.001
  stdwd 9.51 12.64 12.55 12.55 12.96 12.15  
SO2 Mean 4.25 ± 2.07 5.16 ± 2.32 3.92 ± 1.91 4.58 ± 2.6 3.03 ± 1.48 4.12 ± 2.13 <0.001
  stdwd 2.57 2.99 2.06 2.44 1.56 1.96  
O3 Mean 27.88 ± 12.71 33.54 ± 11.16 33.6 ± 13.08 32.02 ± 10.67 27.48 ± 8.53 25.92 ± 9.09 <0.001
  stdwd 16.95 21.56 17.12 17.98 13.07 13.16  
T Mean 28.87 ± 1.46 27.24 ± 0.8 24.34 ± 1.26 23.04 ± 1.45 19.53 ± 1.13 17.59 ± 2.45 <0.001
  stdwd 1.97 2 2.09 2.14 1.69 2.01  

The stdwd was estimated by the hourly measurement of each day.

!: Across-strata comparison: one-way ANOVA for age and BMI, and chi-square test for gender and comorbidity proportions.