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Asthma emergency department visits may be linked to seasonal air pollution, even in areas with generally low pollutant levels

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Fig 2. Asthma emergency department (ED) visits for ages 5–19 years from 2005 to 2014 in South Carolina grouped by admittance day of the year and asthma season (winter: January 1 –February 28/29; spring: March 1 –May 31; summer: June 1 –August 19; fall: August 20 –December 31).

image: Seasonal mean daily ED visits were 16.5 visits/day/year in winter (medium burden), 18.9 visits/day/year in spring (medium-high burden), 9.4 visits/day/year in summer (low burden), and 23.5 visits/day/year in fall (high burden). view more 

Credit: Bozigar et al., 2021, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Asthma emergency department visits may be linked to seasonal air pollution, even in areas with generally low pollutant levels

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0260264   

Article Title: Using Bayesian time-stratified case-crossover models to examine associations between air pollution and “asthma seasons” in a low air pollution environment

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: Manuscript funding was graciously provided by the Environmental Health Department in the Boston University School of Public Health, chaired by Dr. Jon Levy.


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