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Visualizing Lung Cellular Adaptations during Combined Ozone and LPS Induced Murine Acute Lung Injury
Published on: March 21, 2021
Interaction between ambient particles and ozone and its effect on daily mortality
Guo-Hai Chen1, Gui-Xiang Song, Li-Li Jiang
1Shanghai Environmental Monitoring Center, Shanghai 200030, China.
Objective:
To examine the effect of particulate matter (PM) less than 10 microns in diameter (PM10) and ozone (O3) on daily mortality in Shanghai, China.
Methods:
A generalized additive model with penalized spline function was used to observe the acute effect of PM10 and O3 on daily mortality.
Results:
Higher PM10 significantly increased the effect of O3 on total mortality, and O3 also increased the effect of PM10 although the estimated increment was statistically insignificant.
Conclusion:
Our findings provide further evidence for the effect of PM10 and O3 on daily mortality.
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