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. 2020 Oct 7;10:16703. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-73412-6

Table 2.

Distribution of personal and regional fixed-site daily average and 30-min average exposures to air pollution, personal exposure to noise, and environmental variables.

Exposure measure n Mean (sd) 5% 25% Median 75% 95% IQR*
Daily visit average (87 study visits)
Personal exposures
 UFPs (particles/cm3) 81 20,480 (18,338) 2,918 7,742 16,560 22,631 57,501 14,890
 Black carbon (ng/m3) 84 1,872 (1,435) 537 947 1,233 2,411 4,560 1,464
 Noise (dBA) 82 66.9 (3.9) 60.7 64.2 67.3 69.4 73.8 5.2
Fixed-site exposures
 PM2.5 (µg/m3) 87 7.8 (3.2) 3.0 5.2 7.8 10.7 12.8 5.5
 NO2 (ppb) 87 11.8 (3.0) 7.5 10.0 11.3 12.7 17.4 2.7
 O3 (ppb) 87 27.6 (7.0) 17.5 21.2 27.4 33.3 36.8 12.2
 Ox (ppb) ** 87 22.2 (4.7) 15.1 18.4 22.2 25.8 28.7 7.4
Environmental variables
 Temperature (˚C) 87 23.4 (3.3) 16.6 21.8 24.1 25.7 26.9 3.9
 Relative humidity (%) 87 51.5 (10.4) 34.2 42.4 53.6 57.8 66.7 15.4
30-min average (46 study visits)
Personal exposures
 UFPs (particles/cm3) 420 19,733 (32,402) 76.9 4,385 12,185 22,336 65,940 17,950
 Black carbon (ng/m3) 448 1,821 (2,873) 187 661 1,176 1,897 5,025 1,236
 Noise (dBA) 360 66.9 (6.5) 53.9 63.0 68.1 71.4 76.0 8.4
Fixed-site exposures
 PM2.5 (µg/m3) 462 7.7 (5.6) 2.1 3.5 5.6 11.4 16.8 7.9
 NO2 (ppb) 462 10.5 (3.5) 5.1 8.2 10.5 12.3 15.7 4.0
 O3 (ppb) 462 32.3 (11.6) 16.3 23.6 31.1 38.6 56.4 15.1
 Ox (ppb) ** 462 24.9 (7.3) 14.3 19.8 24.3 28.5 39.3 8.7
Environmental variables
 Temperature (˚C) 462 25.0 (3.8) 17.9 22.9 25.4 27.2 31.0 4.3
 Relative humidity (%) 462 43.8 (13.9) 25.9 33.1 42.2 51.7 73.5 18.6

*IQR = interquartile range. **Oxidant capacity of NO2 and O3 estimated as Ox = (1.07*NO2 + 2.075*O3)/3.145.