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Daily ED visits and temperature over time are presented in Figure 1, after adjusting for long-term and seasonal trends, weather, DOW, air pollution and other confounders.
We extracted daily counts of deaths from National Center for Health Statistics records and estimated city-specific associations of mortality with each source factor by Poisson regression, adjusting for time trends, weather, and the other source factors.
After controlling for secular and seasonal trends, weather, air pollution and other confounding factors, a Poisson generalized additive model (GAM) was used to examine the associations between ambient temperature and gender- and age-specific ED visits.
We used generalized additive models to examine the relationship between PMc (single- and multiday lagged exposures) and hospital admissions adjusted for time trends, weather conditions, influenza outbreaks, PM2.5, and gaseous pollutants (nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and ozone).
The correlation between air pollution and preterm birth in Guangzhou city was examined by using the Generalized Additive Model (GAM) extended Poisson regression model in which we controlled the confounding factors such as meteorological factors, time trends, weather and day of the week (DOW).
We also examined the impact of degrees of freedom selection for time trend and weather conditions on PMc effect estimates.
In the basic analytic approach, we used similar model specifications for each city, including smoothers for time trend and weather using natural splines.
In the basic analytic approach, we used similar model specifications for each city, including smoothing spline functions for time trend and weather.
We conducted city-specific analyses using additive mixed models adjusting for patient characteristics, time trend, and weather to assess the impact of air pollutants on plasma IL-6.
