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Table 1 Daily asthma HAs, ambient O3 concentrations, pollen counts, and meteorological variables in Dallas, Houston, and Austin, Texas, from 2003 to 2011

From: Ambient ozone and asthma hospital admissions in Texas: a time-series analysis

Variable name

N of days with data

Mean

SD

Minimum

10th Percentile

25th Percentile

Median

75th Percentile

90th Percentile

Maximum

Daily asthma HAs, all ages (N)

9861

7.6

5.1

0

2

3

7

11

15

32

Daily asthma HAs, 5–14 years (N)

9861

1.7

2.0

0

0

0

1

3

4

17

Daily asthma HAs, 15–64 years (N)

9861

4.2

3.0

0

1

2

4

6

8

19

Daily asthma HAs, 65+ years (N)

9861

1.7

1.6

0

0

0

1

3

4

12

Daily 8-h maximum O3 (ppb)

9839

41.8

14.5

2.0

24.9

31.3

39.7

51.3

62.3

107.0

Daily total pollen counts (N)

9861

283.5

1007.6

0

0

3

26

163

664

30,961

Temperature (° F)

9840

68.1

14.3

16.6

47.2

57.9

70.3

80.1

84.6

97.7

Dew point temperature (° F)

9845

55.1

15.4

6

31.6

43.5

59.5

68.2

72

76.8

  1. HA hospital admission, ppb parts per billion, SD standard deviation, O 3  ozone