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In warmer days, a significantly greater effect on elderly COPD-associated ED visits was estimated for PM2.5 with coexistence of O3.
Additionally, either O3 or SO2 combined with other air pollutants increased the risk of elderly COPD-associated ED visits in the days of high relative humidity and air pressure difference, respectively.
Analyses showed that PM2.5, O3, and SO2 had significantly greater lag effects (the lag was 4 days for PM2.5, and 5 days for O3 and SO2) on COPD-associated ED visits of the elderly population (65 79 years old).
Data of air pollutant concentrations (PM10, PM2.5, O3, SO2, NO2 and CO), meteorological factors (daily temperature, relative humidity and air pressure), and daily COPD-associated ED visits were collected from Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration air monitoring stations, Central Weather Bureau stations, and the Taiwan National Health Insurance database in Taipei area.
The researchers used published climate models to predict summer ozone levels for five consecutive years in the 2020s, then compared them with levels and associated ED visits during the 1990s.
A single, US model-based study provided mean age-specific incidence estimates per 10,000 for NoV-associated ED visits which were: 38 among those <5 years, 10 among those 5 17 years, 12 among those 18 64 years, and 15 among those ≥65 years [ 45].
In a subset of the sample, BIS impulsivity was associated with ED at the trend level, and in a separate subset, CTQ trauma was also associated with EDs (Table 4).
A multinomial logistic regression procedure was performed to identify factors associated with ED-I or ED-C.
Using multivariate analysis, we did not identify any factor associated with ED-C or ED-I (Additional file 3: Table S3).
