Table 3

The adjusted associations of particle number and mass concentrations with health outcomes

		PM₁₀		PM_2.5–10		PM_2.5		PM₁		PNC
		β	SEM	β	SEM	β	SEM	β	SEM	β	SEM
Morning PEF deviation L·min⁻¹	Lag0	0.67	0.31	0.70	0.30	0.45	0.37	0.13	0.36	−0.10	0.30
	lag 1	−0.12	0.31	0.15	0.32	−0.40	0.37	−0.47	0.35	−0.77	0.30
	lag 2	0.07	0.31	0.23	0.31	−0.08	0.36	−0.14	0.35	0.11	0.32
	lag 3	0.44	0.34	0.64	0.34	−0.01	0.38	0.11	0.35	−0.24	0.33
	5‐d ave	1.74	0.60	1.42	0.44	0.56	0.53	0.38	0.60	−0.98	0.59
Afernoon PEF deviation L·min⁻¹	lag 0	0.05	0.31	0.31	0.30	−0.18	0.40	−0.52	0.38	−0.66	0.33
	lag 1	0.49	0.30	0.47	0.30	0.39	0.38	0.23	0.36	−0.03	0.34
	lag 2	0.09	0.30	0.25	0.30	−0.12	0.37	−0.37	0.36	−0.81	0.36
	lag 3	0.14	0.35	0.08	0.36	0.15	0.40	−0.01	0.38	−0.29	0.35
	5‐d ave	0.59	0.56	0.49	0.46	0.20	0.45	−0.43	0.51	−1.92	0.59
Evening PEF deviation L·min⁻¹	lag 0	0.50	0.33	0.73	0.32	0.09	0.40	−0.22	0.40	−0.92	0.35
	lag 1	0.58	0.34	0.62	0.34	0.36	0.41	0.35	0.39	0.11	0.36
	lag 2	0.18	0.34	0.31	0.35	0.07	0.41	−0.33	0.39	0.09	0.36
	lag 3	−0.52	0.37	−0.49	0.39	−0.54	0.41	−0.74	0.38	−0.80	0.35
	5‐d ave	0.97	0.73	0.84	0.62	0.14	0.57	0.02	0.69	−1.48	0.73
Asthma symptom prevalence %	lag 0	0.001	0.004	−0.003	0.004	0.007	0.005	0.006	0.005	0.002	0.004
	lag 1	−0.002	0.004	0.004	0.004	−0.007	0.005	−0.006	0.005	−0.003	0.004
	lag 2	0.003	0.005	0.005	0.005	−0.001	0.005	−0.002	0.005	0.004	0.005
	lag 3	−0.008	0.005	−0.004	0.005	−0.008	0.005	−0.008	0.005	−0.001	0.005
	5‐d ave	−0.008	0.010	−0.002	0.007	−0.004	0.007	0.000	0.008	0.000	0.009
Cough prevalence %	lag 0	0.003	0.004	0.000	0.004	0.003	0.005	0.004	0.005	0.004	0.004
	lag 1	−0.007	0.004	−0.006	0.004	−0.007	0.005	−0.003	0.004	−0.001	0.004
	lag 2	−0.007	0.004	−0.008	0.004	−0.007	0.005	−0.006	0.004	0.004	0.004
	lag 3	−0.002	0.004	−0.003	0.004	0.001	0.004	0.005	0.004	0.002	0.004
	5‐d ave	−0.010	0.010	−0.010	0.007	−0.004	0.007	0.005	0.009	0.012	0.010
Bronchodilator use doses·person⁻¹·day⁻¹	lag 0	−0.028	0.025	−0.041	0.027	−0.014	0.030	−0.011	0.027	−0.013	0.023
	lag 1	−0.002	0.026	−0.035	0.026	0.031	0.031	0.008	0.028	0.020	0.023
	lag 2	−0.046	0.026	−0.032	0.028	−0.055	0.029	−0.016	0.029	−0.017	0.023
	lag 3	0.058	0.027	0.048	0.030	0.043	0.030	0.014	0.028	−0.009	0.024
	5‐d ave	−0.025	0.070	−0.031	0.053	0.018	0.052	-0.027	0.062	-0.029	0.059

The models are adjusted for long term time trend, temperature, relative humidity, weekend effect and autocorrelation
PM₁: particle mass concentration <1 μm
PM_2.5: particle mass concentration <2.5 μm
PM₁₀: particle mass concentration <10 μm
PM_2.5–10: coarse particle mass (PM₁₀–PM_2.5)
PNC: daily mean particle number concentration
PEF: peat expiratory flow
β: regression coefficiant (calculated for interquartile range of pollutant)
5‐d ave: S day avarage
p<0.05
p<0.01.