EPD - Appendix B

Appendix B

Appendix B

Basic tables

A. Hospital Admissions Data:

Table A1: List of HA hospitals included in the study
Table A2.1: Number of hospital admissions by disease groups
Table A2.2: Number of hospital admissions by specific disease group
Table A3.1: Summary statistics of daily hospital admissions due to respiratory disease by 3 month periods
Table A3.2: Summary statistics of daily hospital admissions due to COPD (excluding asthma) by 3-month periods
Table A3.3: Summary statistics of daily hospital admissions due to asthma disease by 3-month periods
Table A3.4: Summary statistics of daily hospital admissions due to cardiac disease by 3-month periods
Table A3.5: Summary statistics of daily hospital admissions due to IHD by 3-month periods
Table A4: Comparison of total hospital discharges between HKU data and those from HA Statistical Report 95/96, 96/97
Table A5.1: Summary statistics of daily hospital admissions by disease groups (1995-97)
Table A5.2: Summary statistics of daily hospital admissions by disease groups (1998#)
Table A6.1: Summary statistics of daily hospital deaths by disease groups (1995-97)
Table A6.2: Summary statistics of daily hospital deaths by diseases groups (1998#)

B. Meteorological Data:

Table B1: Summary statistics of daily mean temperature by 3-month periods
Table B2: Summary statistics of daily mean relative humidity by 3-month periods

C. Pollutant Data:

Table C1: List of air pollution monitoring stations
Table C2: List of pollutants used in the study
Table C3: Percentage of valid measures of air pollutants in each monitoring station
Table C4: Matrix of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient between stations by pollutants (1995-1998)
Table C5.1: Summary statistics of daily mean NO₂ (24-hr average) by 3-month periods
Table C5.2: Summary statistics of daily mean SO₂ (24-hr average) by 3-month periods
Table C5.3: Summary statistics of daily mean RSP (24-hr average) by 3-month periods
Table C5.4: Summary statistics of daily mean O₃ (8-hr average) by 3-month periods
Table C5.5: Summary statistics of daily mean FSP* (24-hr average) by 3-month periods
Table C6: Spearman's rank correlation coefficients (r) between daily concentrations of pollutants by 3-months periods (1995-1997)

D. Pollutant, meteorological and hospital admissions data:

Table D1: Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (r) between daily concentrations of pollutants, meteorological measures and hospital admissions (1995-97)
Table D2: Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (r) between mean daily concentrations of pollutions, meterological and hospital deaths data (1995-1997)
Table D3: Matrix of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (r) between mean daily concentrations of pollution and meteorological data (1995-1997)
Table D4: Spearman's rank correlation coefficients between two missing replacement methods of air pollution data series (1/1995-6/1997)

Table E1: No. of cycles per year for Core Models (before adding the pollutant):
Table E2: Core model for admissions due to respiratory disease, all ages
Table E3: Core model for admissions due to respiratory disease, younger than 15 age group
Table E4: Core model for admissions due to respiratory disease, 15-64 age group
Table E5: Core model for admissions due to respiratory disease, 65-74 age group
Table E6: Core model for admissions due to respiratory disease, 75 or older age group
Table E7: Core model for admissions due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Table E8: Core model for admissions due to asthma, all ages
Table E9: Core model for admissions due to asthma, younger than 15 age group
Table E10: Core model for admissions due to asthma, 15-64 age group
Table E11: Core model for admissions due to cardiac, all ages
Table E12: Core model for admissions due to cardiac, 15-64 age group
Table E13: Core model for admissions due to cardiac, 65-74 age group
Table E14: Core model for admissions due to cardiac, 75 or older age group
Table E15: Core model for admissions due to ischaemic heart disease, all ages
Table E16: Core model for admissions due to ischaemic heart disease, 15-64 age group
Table E17: Core model for admissions due to ischaemic heart disease, 65-74 age group
Table E18: Core model for admissions due to ischaemic heart disease, 75 or older age group
Table E19: Core model for hospital deaths due to respiratory disease, all ages
Table E20: Core model for hospital deaths due to circulatory disease, all ages
Table F1: Relative risks (RR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) for 50 ug/m³ increase in a pollutant for each category of hospital admission ?1995-97
Table F2: Relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) for 50 ug/m³ increase in a pollutant for each category of hospital deaths 1995-97?all ages
Table G1: Relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) for 50 ug/m³ increase in a pollutant adjusted for a copollutant which was associated with the greatest adjustment effect as well as well as adjusted for autocorrelation ?hospital admissions 1995-97
Table G2: Relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) for 50 ug/m³ increase in a pollutant adjusted for a copollutant which was associated with the greatest adjustment effect ?hospital deaths 1995-97
Table H1: Relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) for 50 ug/m³ increase of a pollutant at low and high level of a copollutant ?hospital admission 1995-97
Table I1: Relative risk (RR) and 95% confidence interval (95% CI) for 50 ug/m³ of a pollutant in cool and warm seasons ?hospital admission 1995-97
Table J1: Relative risks and 95% CI for 50 ug/m³ increase in the levels of air pollutants for hospital admissions due to combined cardiovascular and respiratory, cardiovascular, asthma, COPD and IHD diseases (1995-97)
Table J2: Relative risks and 95% CI for 50 ug/m³ increase in the levels of air pollutants for hospital deaths due to combined circulatory + respiratory, respiratory and circulatory diseases (1995-97)

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